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Which "Four Seasons" do you mean J? Your points are well made. Slavery existed all over the world and greedy Europeans(IE the ones that wanted to go to the "New World" and live it up at the expense of others) took advantage of the continuing conflicts between African-(and later on various American and First Canadian Nations members) until people from many groups put it a stop to it and said "enough". Jane Steele.
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>I was at an American Anglican conference this weekend attended by
>representatives of the Anglican Church of Kenya and the Anglican Church of Uganda.
>Both Anglican churches have upcoming ordinations to the episcopate in the
>United States. One of the conferees was a professor of history at Uganda
>Christian University. I enjoyed the Christian fellowship I shared with my black
>African brothers in Christ.
>During social/cocktail hour (we are all Episcopalians after all) I had
>occasion to sit with some of the African attendees and raised a number of the
>issues that have been discussed in this forum on slavery in Virginia and the
>United States, slavery reparations, etc. I found the discussion very
>enlightening.
>I was made aware that the enslavement and trading in black Africans took
>place for untold centuries before the first European showed up. Black Africans
>owning and trading in black African slaves was a well established institution
>for hundreds of years prior to the Portugese stepping ashore. In fact,
>African slavery in Virginia for 200 years was merely a short “snapshot” in the
>long history of African slavery.
>European countries engaged in slavery, rejected it, and outlawed slave
>ownership and the slave trade. The United States followed, and later Cuba and
>Brazil finally put an end to the slave trade as well.
>However, the African slave trade continued to thrive in Africa even after
>trading with the western cultures ended. Why? Because Black Africans continued
>to buy and trade Black African Slaves.
>This slave culture in Africa didn’t begin to end until ……….European
>colonization. First the Christian missionaries, and then the colonial governments
>forced the Africans to stop enslaving and trading in their black African “
>brothers and sisters.” Were it not for European colonialization, black African
>slavery and trading might continue to this day (although it apparently still
>does exist in parts of sub-Sahara Africa).
>As to black African slaves who went from enslavement in African to Virginia
>and the new world, the consensus I got from all in the discussion was that
>they were the lucky ones. Compared to the conditions and treatment of African
>slaves in African, American slaves were living at the Four Seasons.
>J South
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Lillian Jane Steele
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