notgivenaway
Ad Honorem
- Jun 2015
- 5,787
- UK
There can be no demand without supply. And the Europeans did NOT force the Africans to give them slaves. It was greedy African kings who agreed to do this, since they got their cut from it.
So then, why do black nationalists ONLY blame the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, etc. for slavery, when they all got their slaves from Africans willing to capture and sell them?
The entire idea for slavery in this case was European, but Africans were a willing and vital cog in this system. It's like if a criminal gang buy cars to rob banks, and get them willingly from a car dealer. The car dealer is therefore on his or her own volition party to any robberies, and has to take a share of the blame (and criminally would in many jurisdictions).
So then, why do black nationalists ONLY blame the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, etc. for slavery, when they all got their slaves from Africans willing to capture and sell them?
The entire idea for slavery in this case was European, but Africans were a willing and vital cog in this system. It's like if a criminal gang buy cars to rob banks, and get them willingly from a car dealer. The car dealer is therefore on his or her own volition party to any robberies, and has to take a share of the blame (and criminally would in many jurisdictions).