African tribes captured individuals, European traders brought them to the United States, and American owners purchased them as enslaved individuals. While African tribes initially captured the slaves and sold them to European traders, their main motivation was the encouragement of the European traders. ...
but I do blame the Europeans and Americans of the time for the hundreds of years of African Slavery. The governments and immoral citizens of the times created the markets for slaves. European and American slave traders also threatened the lives of entire villages and tribes if they did not pa...
“The Trail of Tears was hard on the Five Tribes,” O’Dell, the Oklahoma historian said. “It was even harder on their slaves.” The native tribes on the Trail of Tears — Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole — owned Black slaves of African descent. It’s a poignant statemen...
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. — Leon Trotsky...
Were slaves bought and sold? Indubitably! The reality is that the Europeans were buying slaves from African and Arab slavers who had already made those slaves. This does not excuse the supposedly Christian Europeans, but it levels the blame and shame game to apportion guilt more realistically. ...
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They were being killed and the healthier ones were being sold to other tribes as...you guessed it - slaves. Coming to America was the better of two options for them. Believe it or not, they were treated better here. The idea that slaves were being beaten came from an advertisement that...
but I do blame the Europeans and Americans of the time for the hundreds of years of African Slavery. The governments and immoral citizens of the times created the markets for slaves. European and American slave traders also threatened the lives of entire villages and tribes if they did not pa...