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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3520334" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Sure, no problem accepting that.  But Roots clearly showed a gang of white American men in the 1700's, possibly early 1800's roaming the African countryside.  The vast majority of slaves were sold into slavery by other Africans.  And your article doesn't illustrate the significant role Arabs played in the slave trade either.  Nor does it talk about the millions and millions of indigenous slaves forced into hard labor to work mines by the Spanish.  One mine alone, Potosi in Bolivia, the biggest silver mine ever, killed over 6 million men working it.  There are still some small villages of Afro-Bolivians, descendants of Africans shipped in because so many Native Americans died there.</p></blockquote><p></p>