Transformations in Slavery by Paul E. Lovejoy, Slavery and African Life by  
Patrick Manning and Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World  
1400-1800 by John Thornton are good works on the early, and at that  point 
exclusively African slave trade, through the worldwide expansion  into the 19th 
century.  They name the names, cultures, tribes,  etc. who were the primary 
movers in both the slave trade to the East (which was  considerably larger and 
longer lasting than to the West) and in Africa itself,  the largest market by far.
 
J.D. Southmayd 
a/k/a J south
 
 
In a message dated 6/25/2008 8:55:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

If Neil  McDonald's logic is right, we can readily apply it to our world
right now.  Instead of focusing our judicial fury on murderers, the
"secondary few" who  pull the trigger, we should hunt down the gun
manufacturers, those who are  "primarily responsible for the endless supply"
of guns in our country and  "share accountabilities" for gun violence. I
think that's where we end up  with this line of reasoning. 

Henry  Wiencek
Charlottesville


>Of likely greater importance to  others, can someone provide the name of one
>African man who may share  accountabilities for the enslaving of Africans and
>selling them at  various African ports for profit, as described below. . . . 
Why focus on  slave traders and
>only consider a secondary few in Virginia when others  were primarily
>responsible for the endless supply to the world over  centuries?
>

>Neil  McDonald

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