What do you know about Africa? What books have you read about the continent?

Nothing, right? Not one.

No.. slavery is not just European. Some form of slavery usually pops up in civilizations around the same time that agriculture is introduced. However, that doesn’t absolve Whites from their history that they are still benefiting from.

The nature of so-called slavery in Africa was completely different from the one introduced during the Transatlantic Slave Trade by EUROPEANS. African slavery was not chattel slavery. What Europeans would call “slaves” were usually prisoners of war. They would be used in agriculture and in armies. They could farm their own crops, and often, the children of a slave was not considered to also be a slave. A slave could free themselves by marrying someone who was free. Some could even leave their masters when it wasn’t farming season. And African slavery was not as brutal as the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.. .the two systems don’t compare. The forms of servitude in Africa were not the same as the ones introduced by Europeans. Period.

And yes, African kings had no problems trading these people from the lowest levels of their societies, because they were used to trading (had been trading across the world for thousands of years) and wanted European guns and other goods. However, they never knew what Europeans were doing with these people once they left the coast… and by the time King Alfonso I, king of the Kongo Kingdom, wrote his infamous letter protesting the Portuguese’s insatiable appetite for slaves, it was already too late. Slavery destabilized the entire continent. Entire nations were depopulated… and some even packed up their towns and moved further into the continent to avoid enslavement. The demand for slaves took over the coastal kingdoms’ economies to where their economies became depended on slavery… which would eventually spell doom for many of them. Europeans decided to stop the slave trade, which fucked up African coastal economies…then came colonization.

Colonization… hmmm… that brings us back around to why you even are thinking the dumb shit you are. Would you like to know how your misconception was invented? Europeans branded every form of servitude in Africa as “slavery” in order to do exactly what you’re doing right now, try to justify all evil acts they did on the continent. This particular way of thinking that you’re echoing came about as an excuse to colonize the African continent in the late 1800s/early1900s. Your ancestors invented the lies. And you believed every single last lie they told to you. That’s very sad. And what’s worse is that you’re a 17 year old kid ignorantly perpetuating the same lies.

And look at your own words. Colonial. Do you know what a colony is? How the fuck an African gonna invent the colonial slave system with no colonies????? There’s no motive. Don’t be a fucking idiot. Use your common sense… you can’t let your racism block out your common sense like that. That’s terrible.

And you’re Australian???? Okay. How did Aborigines go from voluntarily settling on the land that is now Australia some tens of thousands of years ago to this….?

No, Africans to sell them, right? They left the continent voluntarily thousands of years ago. So just how did their enslavement happen? Did they sell themselves into slavery or were their towns raided by Europeans?

And how did blackbirding happen?

No African kings there either. The people of the sea islands just sold themselves…?? Or were they tricked onto boats with the promise of jewelry and then enslaved in Queensland?

How?

I’ll tell you how. Europeans came and just started kidnapping and raping people. And it wasn’t “out of nowhere”. Europeans “discovered” new land. The Americas. Australia. They needed to get the resources out of the land. The Native people who lived on the “discovered” land resisted them, enslavement, and assimilation. And on top of resistance, they were also dying from Europeans diseases. So, they kidnapped and enslaved other peoples to settle the land.

Stop being comfortable with not knowing what the fuck you’re talking about.