It never happened.. wrong color…. Just like slavery, including white slavery world wide in the 1800s never happened. It happened only here when Confederates dispatched ships to Africa to capture black people and bring them back here as slaves. While Confederate ships with the Confederate Battle flags hoisted on their masts were en route they came up with the evil scheme of racism. That's how it was, just ask any of the revisionist grave diggers who desecrate final resting places and introduce censorship.
The only White men who ever were capable of capturing Blacks in Africa and transporting them into slavery were the English who were masters of the seas and maintained a powerful military presence in Africa. But the spirit of Abolition had taken hold in England early in the seventeenth century, so the English were not inclined to participate in the slave trade that became prominent in America.
If the American Confederates had sent ships to Africa to capture slaves they could not have done it because such powerful tribes as the Zulu, Masai, Ibo, Mandingo, et al, would have captured and either killed or enslaved
them. The fact is the African chattel slaves who ended up in America were captured by other Africans, either kidnapped or taken during inter-tribal wars, and sold to Dutch, Arab and Portuguese slave traders, who in turn transported them to America and sold them to dealers.
The initial sales took place in fortresses called
slave castles, the most prominent and active of which were situated where the Niger River empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the slaves reaching America were purchased from these slave castles as plainly indicated on the bills of lading. These slaves were referred to as "Niger people" by dealers and auctioneers.
Mispronunciation of
Niger, not mispronunciation of Negro, is the true origin of the word
"n!gger." Niger people became "n!gger people," then "n!ggers."
The word actually means,
chattel slave.