The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

History.com ^ | 3 May 2018 | BECKY LITTLE

[Savage Beast]

Slavery is one of the most hideous evils ever devised by man or the devil. Give thanks that it is nonexistent in the USA and the rest of the civilized world. Pray that one day it will be nonexistent everywhere and forever.

[weezel]

There is not one race of people on earth that has not at some point in time been held in slavery, and there is not one race on earth that has not held slaves at some point.

[VeniVidiVici]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

Umm, no. There would have been a market. Just as there had been for hundreds of years before the US. It just not have been here.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Jane Long]

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[Thibodeaux]

The reason she was enslaved was because she was unequal.She and her’s were inferior to those that enslaved them

[elpadre]

Obama’s ancestral tribe in Kenya is said to have been Muslim and have been slavers in that their main means of income was capturing other Africans and selling them into slavery.

[njslim]

Lot of hypocrites

Importing of slaves was outlawed by constitution in 1808

Smuggling of slaves continued for 50 years, until Civil War
put end to it. Many prominent business people in places like NY would invest in such deals. Would buy a ship, build
tiers of bunks in holds, hire captain and crew

When confronted by naval frigate would often dump the slaves
overboard to get rid of evidence
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[elpadre]

“..had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market ..”

I don’t believe that is correct. Many slaves were sold to other Africans, Arabs and Orientals.

[Teacher317]

“..had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market ..”
I don’t believe that is correct. Many slaves were sold to other Africans, Arabs and Orientals.

You are correct. Also little known is the fact that 95% of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were bound for other places. The US/Colonies only took about 5% of those "imports".

[SmokingJoe]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

Wrong!
Read this:

Slavery: Trans-Saharan Trade
http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html

No to mention the Arabs emasculated a significant portion of their black African slaves and turned them into eunochs to guard their harems which were full of horny women.

[central_va]

All of his progeny are welcome to leave the USA and go back to the “homeland”.

[SmokingJoe]

The trans Saharan slave trade long preceded the trans Atlantic slave trade by several centuries.

http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html

[philetus]

While probably true, when the tribes found out they could get money for them, they may have started capturing and selling people they wouldn’t have normally went after.

[super7man]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

[PeterPrinciple]

When I was in Africa, My interpreter would explain as we drove thru villages how those people used to be his ancestors slaves.......................

[nickedknack]

Black History Month: Where black people get angry at white people for half their ancestors enslaving the other half.

[The_Media_never_lie]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

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Then, he would probably have been slave of some black dude, presuming he'd been allowed to live. I don't buy any of the race guilt.

[miss marmelstein]

I’ve never heard of a slave ship landing in the US in 1860.

[P.O.E.]

Hurston’s use of vernacular dialogue in both her novels and her anthropological interviews was often controversial, as some black American thinkers at the time argued that this played to black caricatures in the minds of white people. Hurston disagreed, and refused to change Lewis’ dialect—which was one of the reasons a publisher turned her manuscript down back in the 1930s. Many decades later, her principled stance means that modern readers will get to hear Lewis’ story the way that he told it.

Kudos to her for remaining true to "primary sources"