[Timpanagos1]

“Yet the enslavers exerted as well considerable power over their European partners, for in addition to getting the price that they wanted for the product that they were peddling, these black merchants of black bodies would also compel Europeans to pay “gifts” or “customs fees” (“dashee”).”

It is as if the African slave traders exploited and even victimized the European businessmen who were manipulated into purchasing slaves so that they too could sell the slaves at a retail level.

[Alcibiades]

Sounds like if there are reparations to be paid these people’s descendants should be the ones paying them.