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Nope.I know what happened in Africa. Things did not happen as you describe.No you didn't here that. Especially since slavery was not voluntary, nor was it an African institution since the fight was in America.
It was black african who SOLD other black africans to the slave ship captains.
Then the captains sold those slaves around the world...not just the land that would eventually become the USA.
Have you ever stopped to thunk...without federal gov't...we can have no federal law against slavery?
Did you bother to look up the USS Constellation? The anti-slave ship we built BEFORE we were even a country?
You sir...ARE A LIAR!
Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began. Their struggles were multifaceted and covered four continents over four centuries. Still, they have often been underestimated, overlooked, or forgotten. African resistance was reported in European sources only when it concerned attacks on slave ships and company barracoons, but acts of resistance also took place far from the coast and thus escaped the slavers’ attention. To discover them, oral history, archaeology, and autobiographies and biographies of African victims of the slave trade have to be probed. Taken together, these various sources offer a detailed image of the varied strategies Africans used to defend themselves from and mount attacks against the slave trade.
The Africans’ resistance continued in the Americas. They ran away, established maroon communities, used sabotage, conspired, and rose against those who held them in captivity. Freed people petitioned the authorities, led information campaigns, and worked actively to abolish the slave trade and slavery.
In Europe, black abolitionists launched or participated in civic movements to end the deportation and enslavement of Africans. They too delivered speeches, provided information, wrote newspaper articles and books.
Using violent as well as nonviolent means, Africans in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were constantly involved in the fight against the slave trade and slavery.
African Resistance - The Abolition of The Slave Trade
They did the same in South America -- in Brazil where many more Africans were imported than in North America, slaves escaped and established refuges called Quilombos. As would (and did) any enslaved people anywhere. In Spanish Latin America they were called palenques.
Existiu um eldorado negro no Brasil
Existiu como o clarĂŁo que o sol da liberdade produziu
Refletiu a luz da divindade, o fogo santo de Olorun
Reviveu a utopia um por todos e todos por um
There once was a black El Dorado in Brazil
It was like the light that the sun of freedom produced
It reflected the light of divinity; the sacred fire of Olorun*
It awakened a Utopia, one for all and all for one.
(*Olorun/Olodumare is the essence of the creator spirit in Yoruba spirituality)
True.