Zone1 my black ancestors sold slaves to white slavers but I blame the white slavers.

[RetiredGySgt]

Yup that's what we have in a nut shell from people that post about whites being solely responsible for slavery in America.

A History of African Traders of Enslaved People

During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans bought from African traders that sold enslaved Africans due to debt, class, or lack of empathy.

www.thoughtco.com

perfect example of this blame whites but not blacks

the countries that sold blacks into slavery in Africa, 10 African nations involved in the slave trade - Think Africa

 

[odanny]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

 

[Mac1958]

I'm guessing that we're now going to be seeing more and more of this kind of argument going forward.

 

[surada]

Yup that's what we have in a nut shell from people that post about whites being solely responsible for slavery in America.

A History of African Traders of Enslaved People

During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans bought from African traders that sold enslaved Africans due to debt, class, or lack of empathy.

www.thoughtco.com

perfect example of this blame whites but not blacks

the countries that sold blacks into slavery in Africa, 10 African nations involved in the slave trade - Think Africa

Africans didn't own any slave ships.

 

[Godboy]

Yup that's what we have in a nut shell from people that post about whites being solely responsible for slavery in America.

A History of African Traders of Enslaved People

During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans bought from African traders that sold enslaved Africans due to debt, class, or lack of empathy.

www.thoughtco.com

perfect example of this blame whites but not blacks

the countries that sold blacks into slavery in Africa, 10 African nations involved in the slave trade - Think Africa

They are more angry at long dead slave owners in history than they are with the current slave owners in Africa in 2022. You dont hear a fucking peep out of black people for modern day slavery. I guess its because they cant score political points for those slaves.

 

[surada]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

Valiant? I'd say stupid.

 

[Godboy]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

^ This is a valiant effort to blame slavery one one group of people, when every group on the planet was doing it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

Minimize? No but to ignore where the white slavers got their slaves from is both disingenuous and a lie.

 

[odanny]

^ This is a valiant effort to blame slavery one one group of people, when every group on the planet was doing it.

This thread premise is what is called "false equivalency".

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Africans didn't own any slave ships.

No but they did SELL all the black slaves to the ship owners.

 

[progressive hunter]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

you think thats bad,, hell today they dont ship them anywhere,, they keep them right there in their own country and make them slaves,,

There are more slaves now than any time in human history

A report published Tuesday highlighting the scourge of modern-day slavery paints a stark picture. “We now have the largest number of slaves on Earth than we’ve had in human history,&#82…

www.nydailynews.com

 

[RetiredGySgt]

This thread premise is what is called "false equivalency".

it is not false that with out black nations selling blacks there would have been no transatlantic slave trade.

 

[Godboy]

Africans didn't own any slave ships.

Yes they did. Their ships were too sucky to take across the ocean, but they had their primitive ships that they used along the coast.

 

[Penelope]

Yup that's what we have in a nut shell from people that post about whites being solely responsible for slavery in America.

A History of African Traders of Enslaved People

During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans bought from African traders that sold enslaved Africans due to debt, class, or lack of empathy.

www.thoughtco.com

perfect example of this blame whites but not blacks

the countries that sold blacks into slavery in Africa, 10 African nations involved in the slave trade - Think Africa

They made money selling slaves to whites. Who do you blame??

 

[EvMetro]

I'm guessing that we're now going to be seeing more and more of this kind of argument going forward.

What specific argument are you talking about? Is there something in the title, opening post, or article that is not accurate?

 

[surada]

No but they did SELL all the black slaves to the ship owners.

For textiles, tinpots, tools and whiskey..

 

[EvMetro]

This is a valiant effort to minimize the history of shipping slaves from Africa to North America.

The opening post is not about shipping. It is about who was selling.

 

[ZZ PUPPS]

Every race on the planet has been involved in both sides of slavery.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

For textiles, tinpots, tools and whiskey..

for weapons and prestige as well but what they got is unimportant the important part is they sold them.

 

[surada]

for weapons and prestige as well but what they got is unimportant the important part is they sold them.

Look who owned slave ships.