Slaves were NOT taken from Africa!!!

[WaveGang]

Africans were taken from Africa... not slaves. Normal productive productive people of skilled work from an advanced civilization

18th century newspaper article advertising Africans who had JUST arrived on American shores. We came from fully functioning societies

Carpenters, black smiths, bricklayers, bakers, hairdressers, dressmakers, printers, surveyors, copper plate printers, perukemakers (those head pieces judges wear) tailors, shoemakers. Not noted here but there were even architects.

It's funny how they use of language is a weapon used against black people

yes, I'm referring to the use of the nword

wake up brothers.

Black Pride

 

[mortuus est]

this is a lie

we were tricked and taken THE WHITEMAN DID IT!!!!!

 

[Ricky Church]

believe what the white man wants you to believe brehs...

 

[kp404]

The best book on this that uses all the primary documents to prove Africans were taken from the continent based on their region's economic specialized skill is Michael Gomez's "Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South." Rich history of the African regions and how they were taken by whites based on their labor skill

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

so the general consensus before was that the black people taken from africa were already slaves in africa?

i thought it was common knowledge that the africans taken as slaves were already in established civilizations...so it was bound to have people with skills...which made slavery even worse because you were taking people from their homes

 

[WaveGang]

The best book on this that uses all the primary documents to prove Africans were taken from the continent based on their region's economic specialized skill is Michael Gomez's "Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South." Rich history of the African regions and how they were taken by whites based on their labor skill

any link to a pdf?

 

[kp404]

any link to a pdf?

Breh that book is hard to find on pdf...its worth the purchase on amazon for less than $10...I got mine for $20....I would call it a modern classic and a bullet to white supremacist science and teachings

 

[WaveGang]

so the general consensus before was that the black people taken from africa were already slaves in africa?

i thought it was common knowledge that the africans taken as slaves were already in established civilizations...so it was bound to have people with skills...which made slavery even worse because you were taking people from their homes

you commonly hear people say "the slaves were taken from africa" this is what im gettin at

 

[Crakface]

Doesnt matter, whites bought black people, treated them like dirt, with centuries of horrendous abuse, dumped 10s of millions on the ocean and continue treating black people like shyt in 2014.

O wait, and the same people they bought black people from they beat the shyt out of them and treated them like shyt.

So really, tallying up how many black people were sold or taken really makes no difference when whites made the choice to enslave a race and after doing so, treat their lives as worthless.

Just white supremacists, trying to find ways of alleviating themselves of guilt.

Thats like me going to South America to buy a maid, and then bringing her to America to make her a sex slave, then tell her family, well, yall wanted her to get her green card........

 

[LionofJudah]

Well, let me ask y'all this. Whoever wants to answer is fine. How do you suppose MILLIONS of people were taken from a single continent with the main concentration coming from a specific place which is Western Africa? Why not Eastern, Southern, Northern, Central Africa? Yes, I know some slaves were taken from there, but not many. Furthermore, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade lasted hundreds of years. Why do you think Africans didn't band together doing that time to defend against the invading enemy?

 

[Dada]

I thought this thread was going in another direction from the title, like not this again. ...then ..


^Actually 36-40% were taken from Central Africa (Gabon to ,Angola). I think the misconception is that there has been a tendency to call everything not extreme North (Libya), South (South Africa), and East (Somalia, Ethiopia),....West Africa.

 

[Chesirecatdaddy]

I'm not understanding this thread brehs

Of course not all were slaves some were even royalty

 

[Momentum]

Many of us were already here as well. Africans been inhabitating America and UOENOOOOO

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Well, let me ask y'all this. Whoever wants to answer is fine. How do you suppose MILLIONS of people were taken from a single continent with the main concentration coming from a specific place which is Western Africa? Why not Eastern, Southern, Northern, Central Africa? Yes, I know some slaves were taken from there, but not many. Furthermore, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade lasted hundreds of years. Why do you think Africans didn't band together doing that time to defend against the invading enemy?

I'll answer this..... 3 things......

Access & proximity... Should be self-explanatory.

Money & goods.... Slaves were traded for mostly money and guns. You think that the tribes that were trading would give that up?

Fear of subjugation and/or annihilation.... Some tribes had a change of heart after the fact but the damage was done. After the lies wouldn't work anymore and Africans figured out what was going on, those tribes were threaten with the same weapons they were trading to obtain. I would surmise to say that the Europeans and slave trading tribes started kidnapping people from other tribes.

 

[kp404]

I thought this thread was going in another direction from the title, like not this again. ...then ..


^Actually 36-40% were taken from Central Africa (Gabon to ,Angola). I think the misconception is that there has been a tendency to call everything not extreme North (Libya), South (South Africa), and East (Somalia, Ethiopia),....West Africa.

Exactly..Gomez proves in the book I mentioned everything you posted. Central Africa and South Africa contributed heavily to the African slave population on the transatlantic slave trade, not just the West African dominant theory...whites took specific Africans that specialized in particular economic processes;