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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