It was, after all, their own people that sold them to the whites. We were unable to go get them from the jungle.
Absolutely right. That the black African slave-traders were the very ones who facilitated the institution of slavery to the West without whom there would be no slavery is all I need to know about the horrors of it all. BTW: That Brazil owned, employed five times as many slaves as the US did is to me something that changes the entire complexion, phenomena of the US slave trade. Not once have I read or heard about any recriminations or talk about reparations for even a single slave forced to live and work in Brazil.