Insaanistan wrote:Aureumterra wrote:Awfully long post with no sources at all
Meanwhile, take a look at Wikipedia (and this Wikipedia page has all of its main sources cited)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ ... an_slavery
How about here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ ... lave_trade
Please stop with the historical revisionism, it is well documented that Europeans bought slaves from African rulers, and while some were quite literally "Taken and chained," the majority were captured prisoners of war who were then sold to Europeans by African rulers. Your post mentions no evidence, sources, or citations for your revisionist claims
“Ah yes, let’s ask the White dude if he thinks most slaves were stolen by white people or black people”. It would make more sense to ask the slaves, as, like I said, those who were African captured who captured AFrIcAns were generally never of the same ethnic group. Even sources claiming most slaves were bought rather stolen admit this. I’m not revising history. What IS revising history is that fact that these sources often come from the descendants of those who did the stealing. For the last time I AM NOT SAYING NO SLAVES WERE BOUGHT. What I AM saying is that that wasn’t the majority of slaves, and Africans who sold Africans were nearly never the same people groups. I am Hausa. I am just as likely to have relatives who were stolen as I am to have ones that sold people. But I ask you, look at the Africans who were capturing people. You will likely notice something... something around their necks: chains. These Africans who captured people were often already slaves, or would end up as slaves. And when Kong’s ad chiefs got wind of what was really going on in the Americas, they usually demanded the Europeans stop trying their, which would generally result in the capturing of essentially everyone in the village including the chief, followed by the collection guns to be sold by Europeans to another unsuspecting African chief.
Here’s one source to read for now. More coming along soon:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost ... 637798/amp
I read the article, it points out that the slave trade began with raids, but nowhere does it support your own claims that most slaves weren’t sold by Africans… so I once again ask for a source