This destroys your arguments in an easy to understand article
lol, just lol.
How does that destroy my argument?
One African tribe attacks another and enslaves the people to sell to Europeans for guns so they can attack another tribe and do it all over again? How is that different from my argument of Africans selling other Africans to Europeans for commodities?
That website is also a blog made by some random guy, do you believe everything you read on the internet? If I made a blog that said the Holocaust was made up and the Nazis didn't kill millions of Jews, would you believe it? Blogs aren't hard to make, anyone can do it.
Quotes from that blog.
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Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies..."
No
Sherlock and guess what, it still isn't a country, it's a continent!
Also just because they were selling their enemies, that doesn't justify anything, they provided the goods for the Atlantic slave trade.
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Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it."
This is totally wrong, most of the major powers in Africa had a big role in supplying the slaves to sell to the Europeans. Yes, some of the countries did not accept slavery but apparently greed changed all that. Look at the Mossi Kingdoms, they fought against slavery and tried to forcefully take over key points of the trans-Saharan trade route, of course they failed and in the 1800's they actually changed their minds about slavery and started providing slaves for the Atlantic Slave trade.
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The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. "
Well, this is some what true, but they provided most of the slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, how does that not make them involved?
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The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that."
How is this true? Yes, the Atlantic slave trade was racist but so was the slave trades in Africa. The Africans got their slaves from other African countries. Is it not racist because they are both African? Is it not racist for an English person to make fun of a German because they are both European? No, it was all racist, the Africans saw the tribes they conquered and enslaved as "inferior" to themselves.
"It uses what I call the
Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others."
This whole blog is a contradiction based on this argument right here, he is stating that what Africans did during the Atlantic slave trade was not as bad as what the Europeans where doing. The Africans attacked and murdered other countries to get slaves to sell to the Europeans. What both sides did was immoral.
I just want to say that I am NOT trying to justify what happened back then, I am not racist and being born and raised in the great country of America, I believe every man, woman and child has basic rights. Slavery is wrong but I also believe people should have the right to facts and information.
-edit- Oh noes, I think I just fed the troll. :3
