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Earth to Anita...........
It is well documented, as I have noted previously citing numerous historical
and sociological sources, that Black African slavery of Black Africans
originated untold centuries before any European showed up on the shores of the
Dark Continent and decided that Europeans might also adopt this form of labor.
The Africans were pleased to sell the Europeans all the slaves they wanted
and made a fortune from the trade in Black Africans put into slavery. A good
reference on this is Slavery and African Life by Patrick Manning. See also,
From Slavery to Freedom (7th Edition) by John Hope Franklin. They took
slaves in war, but also captured and purchased them otherwise (including from
their families) and the trading in Black African slaves pre-dated European
slavery and also post-dated the end of European slavery until the Europeans
colonized Africa and made the African give up the practice in the 20th century.
African slave owners engaged in practices that would curl the hair of
American slave owners, such as cutting off the heads of slaves, throwing their
corpses into the sea to attract sea urchins whose shells were used for currency.
Just one example.
While in Islam Black female slaves who gave birth to the children of their
masters generally became free, that was not mandatory, although the Koran
apparently required such an action to be taken.
Please take your head out of the sand and recognize that Black African
slavery isn't something a bunch of 15th century white European men thought up one
day while sailing to Africa on vacation.
J South
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