Agreed. African tribes had been enslaving each other for centuries before the Atlantic slave trade.
Europeans didn't go onto the continent and round people up. Jews traded bling and alcohol to African kangz for boatloads of negroes.
There would have been no slave trade if there had been no slaves to trade.
Millennia. When they weren’t eating each other.
Could it be that they were the first to ever practice slavery where niggers themselves were the currency? Think about it. The value of their possessions is so negligent, they had to trade an entire person for something, and sometimes I bet even a whole group of oogas wouldn't amount to much. What would be the cost of one captive tiger? One hundred niggers? Two hundred? Maybe thousand?
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