They seemed to have done a good job at erasing the part of history where all the slaves in America were enslaved and then sold by their own kind.
White people didn't go just grab blacks up, they bought them from blacks. Blacks still enslave their own kind to this day.
Then again most people don't know that in Barbary at one point there were more white slaves than all of the black slaves in America combined.
Between the 1600s and 1900s Barbary pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans, who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary. What fate awaited them in North Africa?
www.ancient-origins.net