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What countries Apologized for the Atlantic Slave Trade??? Let's take a look
- Thread starter BlackMajik
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Owning slave ships, profiting from shares etc... Look it up, I remember researching it and it was facts.
This is how the WHOLE of Europe got rich. There ain't really a European country that wasn' iinvolved in some capacity tbh.
BlackPrint
The Mayor
It's alot to get into, i've had the argument countles times on here.. But crudely, it breaks down sorta like this..Repped
Please elaborate on the first part of your post?
The initial stages of the trans-atlantic slave trade had very little trade to it, Portroguese and Spanish merchants, were granted licenses by the various merchant guilds, to go into coastal African lands that weren't terrible well defended, and kidnap the people that lived there and bring them back to Europe to work as slaves and eventually the New World.. This went on in different capacities for almost the length of the slave trade.
One of the earliest examples would be Lançarote de Freitas, this is a White Portoguese man.
Roots of the Atlantic Slave Trade - The Lifeline Expedition - Healing the past, transforming the future.
(I try to use WHITE publications because oftentimes Black sites are easily dismissed as "hotep afrocentric bla blah".
Another Portoguese slave raider, Nuno Tristao, literally got killed while trying to take (not purchase..TAKE..kidnap, steal) Africans as slaves. There were no (or sometiems few) reported native Africans in these expedition camps. This was literally White European men going into Africa with guns and stealing Black people. No "selling their own" or any of that.
Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery: Misconceptions About the African Involvement in the Slave Trade | HuffPost
Ontop of that, you've gotta remember that although the "colonial era" of Africa is understood to have taken place inthe 20th century, many polities in Africa (Free states, Companies and figurehead "Kingdoms" were established by White European overlords with White European governors practicing hegemonic influence over large groups of Black Africans.. Thus, the monies being exchanged went from white hands to other white hands.. Many of these 'expeditions" we read about were in actuality Slave raiding expeditions whos objective was to take Blacks.Additionally, almost all of the Native african kingdom (and unincorporated villages) that took up arms against the European and lost, had their people enslaved (Not purchased.. taken) and shipped off to the New World.. I'll pull up some more on it later I gotta run.
But basically, I don't wanna externalize Blame from the Chiefs/Kings/whoever that sold other Blacks into bondage (though it was ethnic, not racial.. There are ColiBrehs who constantly say HYON when we talk about Somali and Haitian brehs being abused and allat in the contemporary) but just understand that this idea that ALL slaves were sold by fellow Africans is absolutely false, there was a constant stream of STOLEN (not purchased..taken.. kidnapped by WHITES) Africans being shipped to the shores of America.
When we do this "they sold us" thing, it's coming from that white mouth and is a way to blame eachother for something that was engineered by someone that doesn't look like us.
The world is rip with the division the hell ya'll cats be talking about? It's been tribal wars before it was a damn coli. Before crackers started to label us with color codes people went by their nationalities, and ethnic names. I don't think their was a time period when all black nations on the earth were in unison and agreement don't know why ya'll act like it was no racial group is all in agrmeent.
Yes they did but the Slave trade on the East Coast of Africa was the Arabic Slave trade not Atlantic.That Ugandan president kept it all the real
Those brehs were going to the Middle East, North Africa, India and those offshore Islands.
The Portuguese were doing this on the East Coast and South of Africa.
There's Portuguese forts in the coastal regions of East Africa from those era's still standing.
It was a minority I think what is lost on a lot of people is the size of the continent. You can tell this by the genealogy of the people and where they came from.
Depending on the European nations and where they touched down different techniques by the British, Dutch, Portuguese, Belgians. Some traded and some waged war.
There's tons of slaves that never left on boats but were wiped clean off the earth via genocide in places like the Congo (millions) and Namibia.
And west Africa. Nigeria capital Lagos was founded by the Portuguese.
The Portuguese were one of the early explorers in the African continent.
xoxodede
Superstar
I definitely understand. But, in the context of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the exportation of the enslaved via West Africa — it wasn’t a minority.
I do acknowledge their was some resistance but it was more complacency and assistance.
The “second” Atlantic Slave trade consisted mainly of English/British shipping most of the enslaved out of West Africa.
The technique was trading people for guns and goods.
The Congo genocide was from 1885-1908 - 20 years after the American Civil War/Emancipation.
Atrocities in the Congo Free State - Wikipedia
Namibia Genocide was 1904 and 1908.
Herero and Namaqua genocide - Wikipedia
As horrific as they were - and my heart goes out to the victims and their families - neither are related to the transatlantic slave trade.
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Oceanicpuppy
Superstar
I read these in a African accent. 
There's a lot that we still don't know but the Portuguese who are some of the earliest players were not trading when they started as mentioned in here. At some point they did but that was later. They had been doing this long before the British.
I was also surprised to see Uganda listed as part of countries apologizing for the Atlantic Slave trade. That can't be accurate.
Individual tribes themselves know which ones practised slavery and which ones didn't. It was ultimately a cultural thing as horrible as that is.
there's no such thing... but I'll assume you mean that proto typical michael blackson ish based on mostly nigeriansI read these in a African accent.
Oceanicpuppy
Superstar
No Nigerian father accent to be exact.
