What countries Apologized for the Atlantic Slave Trade??? Let's take a look

[Armchair Militant]

Or they sold people that were different from them.....


People sell there enemies or people that are DIFFERENT from them.

Selling ur own people fundamentally doesn’t make any sense

Those tribes were different from each other. You're assuming those Africans cared about each other because they had the same skin color.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Which Western country is going to redistribute the wealth generated from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Economy of Chattel Slavery?

NOT A fukkING ONE.

 

[Dreadknox77]

Those tribes were different from each other. You're assuming those Africans cared about each other because they had the same skin color.

The reason they didn’t care is because they knew the people they sold were different than them.

It’s not about skin color

 

[xoxodede]

Or they sold people that were different from them.....


People sell there enemies or people that are DIFFERENT from them.

Selling ur own people fundamentally doesn’t make any sense

Certain tribes waged war just to capture slaves -- for guns and random goods. They weren't always their enemies -- but yes -- often times "strangers."

And more than a few chiefs got played by Europeans after supplying them slaves by having their own family members and members of tribe tricked into slavery.

In some cases parents were selling their own children and kin.

Children were snatched while working in the fields, walking on the outskirts of town, or innocently playing outside away from their parents' view. So that communities could make ends meet during times of famine, families sometimes sold their children into slavery. Many children also found themselves as pawns or bargaining chips, sold into slavery to repay debts or crimes committed by their parents or relatives. Some parents sold children who were in poor health, required special needs, or perceived as evil spirits.Source


The Asante allowed the Portuguese to build the Elmina Castle in 1482 to promote the trade. Yes, they wanted to trade other things/goods - but they also wanted to trade/sale slaves - and they allowed it to become their number one product.

Same for when King Haffon of Whydah authorized the "Fort of St John the Baptist of Ouidah" in 1721.

To other willing collaborators: The Story of Africa| BBC World Service

“…I must own, to the shame of my own countrymen, that I was first kidnapped and betrayed by some of my own complexion, who were the first cause of my exile and slavery…If there were no buyers there would be no sellers.”
—African abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano (1757-1791)

“I want to apologize for the role my ancestors played in the slave trade….I knew one day I wanted to come to this land and ask forgiveness of my black brothers and sisters. I wanted to cross the ocean to see the land where my ancestors suffered.”
—King Kpoto-Zounme Hakpon III of Benin to a black audience in Alabama, 2013

“We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans, particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless….In view of the fact that the Americans and Europe have accepted the cruelty of their roles and have forcefully apologised, it would be logical, reasonable and humbling if African traditional rulers…[can] accept blame and formally apologise to the descendants of the victims of their collaborative and exploitative slave trade.”—Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, 2009

“I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We too are blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human history.”
—Former Ghanaian diplomat to the UN Kofi Awoonor, 1994​

An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves

 

[ATownD19]

Certain tribes waged war just to capture slaves -- for guns and random goods. They weren't their enemies -- but yes -- often times "strangers."

And more than a few chiefs got played by Europeans after supplying them slaves by having their own family members and members of tribe tricked into slavery.

In some cases parents were selling their own children and kin.

Children were snatched while working in the fields, walking on the outskirts of town, or innocently playing outside away from their parents' view. So that communities could make ends meet during times of famine, families sometimes sold their children into slavery. Many children also found themselves as pawns or bargaining chips, sold into slavery to repay debts or crimes committed by their parents or relatives. Some parents sold children who were in poor health, required special needs, or perceived as evil spirits.Source


The Asante allowed the Portuguese to build the Elmina Castle in 1482 to promote the trade. Yes, they wanted to trade other things/goods - but they also wanted to trade/sale slaves - and they allowed it to become their number one product.

Same for when King Haffon of Whydah authorized the "Fort of St John the Baptist of Ouidah" in 1721.

To other willing collaborators: The Story of Africa| BBC World Service

“…I must own, to the shame of my own countrymen, that I was first kidnapped and betrayed by some of my own complexion, who were the first cause of my exile and slavery…If there were no buyers there would be no sellers.”
—African abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano (1757-1791)

“I want to apologize for the role my ancestors played in the slave trade….I knew one day I wanted to come to this land and ask forgiveness of my black brothers and sisters. I wanted to cross the ocean to see the land where my ancestors suffered.”
—King Kpoto-Zounme Hakpon III of Benin to a black audience in Alabama, 2013

“We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans, particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless….In view of the fact that the Americans and Europe have accepted the cruelty of their roles and have forcefully apologised, it would be logical, reasonable and humbling if African traditional rulers…[can] accept blame and formally apologise to the descendants of the victims of their collaborative and exploitative slave trade.”—Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, 2009

“I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We too are blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human history.”
—Former Ghanaian diplomat to the UN Kofi Awoonor, 1994​

An African country reckons with its history of selling slaves

Neely Fuller is right. White Supremacists are the smartest group of people in recorded history. They can beat, mame, steal, abuse, and have their victims blame each other for it

 

[Wildhundreds]

Which Western country is going to redistribute the wealth generated from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Economy of Chattel Slavery?

This is the real question..

They like "we're sorry, not stupid"

 

[Wildhundreds]

And for the record, just because you were sold into slavery, doesn't mean you should've recieved harsh treatment..

Then these devils claim this is a "christian" country..

How about when the bible speaks of a jubilee for their slaves?

I guess they skipped that part..

 

[xoxodede]

Neely Fuller is right. White Supremacists are the smartest group of people in recorded history. They can beat, mame, steal, abuse, and have their victims blame each other for it

I guess....

I have been researching my genealogy and family tree for now over 4 years. I had to take the time to research and learn about what really happened. Here on American soil --- and aboard.

I'm not just saying this to say it. I have taken the time to do the research.

I do agree they didn't see the other Africans as "their people" -- but in essence -- they were.

Although she expressively exposes a wound that aches in contemporary African Diaspora, the sentiments she describes are anachronistic because they could not have reflected the deported Africans’ point of view. Their autobiographies and interviews clearly evidence that they did not think they had been sold by “black brothers and sisters.”

Omar ibn Said writes that he was captured in war by “infidels”; Ibrahima abd al-Rahman Barry was made a prisoner by “Heboes” and sold to “Mandingoes”; Job ben Solomon was kidnapped by “Mandingoes”; Ali Eisami Gazirmabe by “Fulbe”; Muhammad Ali ben Said by “Kindills”; Olaudah Equiano was abducted by “two men and a woman”; Abu Bakr al-Siddiq was captured by “Adinkra’s army”; Joseph Wright was made a prisoner by “the enemies”; Samuel Ajayi Crowther by an army of “Oyo Mahomedans, Foulahs and foreign slaves”; William Thomas was sold by “people belonging to Pedro Blanco’s slave barrac00n”; Ottobah Cugoano—the only one who at one point refers to betrayal by “some of my own complexion”—was abducted by “great ruffians”; and Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was made a prisoner by “enemies” Source: http://www.ohioswallow.com/extras/0821415166_intro.pdf​

White Supremacist and as well as many Africans are to blame.It is what it is. You have to have a product to sell/trade.

Denying it, fronting like didn't happen like that --- and even downplaying what really happened isn't respectful or honorable to me.

The hard truth is what's best - that is the best way to deal with it, heal and move past it.

 

[staticshock]

People really believe that narrative Africans sold there own people into slavery ???

Think about that for a second...that’s the most retarded lie I’ve ever heard of

If we have c00ns today what makes you think they weren’t around back then

 

[Off the Onion]

Countries like Lithuania and Sweden were involved... Don't get it twisted.

How and when?

 

[Shadow King]

OP how much rep did you lose?

 

[BlackMajik]

OP how much rep did you lose?

None

 

[Ya?]

Many Africans/blacks are apathetic to one another, and this continues to this day. Most of the countries who have been apologized to or compensated commend respect in the international community. Africans and black slave descendants are demanding apologies but screwing their own people every second so much so that they prefer dying in Mediterranean Sea each day rather than live in these Badly managed countries.

The French West Indies has also attempted to be compensated by France due to atrocities. But too many interna fighting between French Caribbean’s to settle on why they should be compensated.The whites (called beke) control most of these French islands and the multiracial elite are more aligned with French interests. Last I heard the conversations fell through and nothing came of it.

When the average millennial thinks having a black family is an inconvenience or a forced obligation I don’t foresee anything to come of it.

And the saddest thing is, western powers have maintained immaculate record on the slave trade. There is no reason why black people could not demand compensation, oh well.

 

[TEH]

I’ve fought tooth and nail to show that many European powers (particularly the Portuguese) fought wars against Native Africans and took (not purchased..taken) them as slaves for the New World. This isn’t a small amount by any means and took place virtually through the entire slave trade.

Much of TheColi is based on Black division though so it’s understandle why you’ll see threads like this where the African apologies are in big red letters and the American apology (which wasn’t really an apology) is an after5ought at the bottom of the page, words like “European slave raiders” simply don’t compute for your average person on TheColi.

Repped



Please elaborate on the first part of your post?

 

[Izanami]

I’ve fought tooth and nail to show that many European powers (particularly the Portuguese) fought wars against Native Africans and took (not purchased..taken) them as slaves for the New World. This isn’t a small amount by any means and took place virtually through the entire slave trade.

Much of TheColi is based on Black division though so it’s understandle why you’ll see threads like this where the African apologies are in big red letters and the American apology (which wasn’t really an apology) is an after5ought at the bottom of the page, words like “European slave raiders” simply don’t compute for your average person on TheColi.

I peeped that slick shyt. This site is ripe with black division