Basil Forest wrote, "Slavery was contrary to Christ's teachings and an 
abomination.   However, those black Africans who were brought to the 
colonies were originally  enslaved by their African 'brothers" and were 
lucky to leave their servitude in  Africa for the much more benign treatment 
they received on this side of the Atlantic, and ultimately received their 
freedom while their African slave  "brothers" continued to be enslaved in 
Africa until the 20th  century.
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What evidence is there that American slavery was more benign than African?
Evidence would show the exact opposite. There were not 14 million or so 
enslaved Africans waiting for the West to pick them up. They were enslaved 
because of the market which developed in the West (as well as the Muslim 
East).

If you disparage Africans for involvement in the slave trade, what do you 
think of the so-called civilized Americans who owned them as property into 
the 1860s. It took a war to force them to give up their "rights" to them. I 
wonder when and if they would have ever emancipated them on their own.

Those who refused to give up their slaves in the 1860s might well be 
compared to the fanatical Muslims in Saudi Arabia who did the same.
Paul