[SMARTY]

“I wonder just how prosperous American Blacks would have been had their ancestors’ own race in Africa not sold them for slaves and NOT been shipped to America.”

Actually, tribal chiefs in Africa became very prosperous and powerful selling their fellow Africans to anyone with the ready. The MOST unfortunate of these people sold as slaves were packed off to the Caribbean, South America, and other slave holding concerns held by Europeans. Most of the European held colonies were held and controlled by ‘agencies’ and only answered to their bottom line, be it tea, coffee, cane...etc. and did not answer to the crown. For these 'agency' overlords, there was no national outrage and cry for abolition of brutal practices and the situation for slave populations was worse for longer.Colonial powers took way longer to abolish slavery than the United States did.

[kellynla]

“Actually, tribal chiefs in Africa became very prosperous and powerful selling their fellow Africans to anyone with the ready.”

THANK YOU!

I get so tired of hearing this Bravo Sierra about “black slavery.”

Just who does anyone think gathered up these people in Africa to be sold into slavery? George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin? LMAO

I KNOW it wasn't any of my ancestors who had problems of their own just trying to survive under the British holocaust in Ireland!

[Sherman Logan]

Colonial powers took way longer to abolish slavery than the United States did.

Inaccurate. I believe the only western nations to not abolish slavery before the USA were Brazil and Cuba.

Brazil was an independent nation at the time, and Cuba was a Spanish colony.

Of course, slavery hung on a lot longer, to this day in some cases, in Muslim, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern areas.