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Ray D’Angelo Harris

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He said that slavery was a choice so they chose to sell people into slavery.

Seriously though y'all should read about the history of the Gold Coast (modern day country of Ghana which is not the Empire of Ghana) and Upper Volta (modern day Burkina Faso). Interesting reading and slave trading in that area was based upon two wars that the Ashanti people had against the Dagomba people and the people of Gonja. The Dagomba and Gonja lost those wars so they were required to pay the Ashanti a war debt. The Ashanti wanted gold, but the Dagomba and Gonja didn't have any but agreed to pay with slaves instead. That is how slave trading started there, but before that war there was no known slave trading in that region. Most of the slaves in that region came from the Northern part of modern day Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso, but eventually the people in Central and Southern Ghana became targets of the ever widening wars for slavery.

Still doesn’t excuse how slaves ended up in the hands CACs. :coffee:
 

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Still doesn’t excuse how slaves ended up in the hands CACs. :coffee:
The Ashanti sold the captured people to the White men at the coast. The Ashanti even attacked and enslaved other Akan people which is why many Akan people Iike Baoule fled to the Ivory Coast.

So all incidents of slave trading was different depending upon region and not all African people and Empires engaged in the slave trade or allowed it to occur in their regions.
 

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The Ashanti sold the captured people to the White men at the coast. The Ashanti even attacked and enslaved other Akan people which is why many Akan people Iike Baoule fled to the Ivory Coast.

So all incidents of slave trading was different depending upon region and not all African people and Empires engaged in the slave trade or allowed it to occur in their regions.

Sounds like one of those stories that shift and change depending on who you ask :patrice: one group will blame the other, and so on and so forth.
 
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