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4 ups, 4y
Early America White guys didn't go to Africa & negotiate with other white guys... That's for sure.
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2 ups, 4y,
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Source?

I can't find anything that supports your case here, and I've searched. It appears you have made this "fact" up. So I will need you evidence now please.
2 ups, 4y
Here are some sources and quotes: "In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves."
9 ‘Facts’ About Slavery They Don’t Want You to Know by snopes. I very much doubt that that is most, but I get the point.

"African traders of enslaved people felt no obligation to protect enslaved Africans because they did not regard them as their equals."
African Traders of Enslaved People by thoughtco
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2 ups, 4y
Alright, that was enough time.

No source came forward because this is fake news.

Now for the real news, here is PBS.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/

And the BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxt3gk7/revision/7
1 up, 4y,
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Either way slavery was very wrong, even if it wasn't motivated by race, it was the suppression of other human beings rights
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1 up, 4y,
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Slavery was wrong, and there were participants of all races. However, the transatlantic slave trade was started and perpetuated by Europeans. OP meme implies that Africa drove the slave trade, when in fact, Europe did.
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1 up, 4y,
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No, actually the transatlantic slave trade was began by Muslims in North Africa and the Moors in Spain.
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1 up, 4y,
1 reply
Incorrect.

"The use of African slave labour was not new. The Spanish and Portuguese had been using African slaves since the 16th century.

However, the Atlantic slave trade of the 18th century was a new kind of slavery and on a scale much greater than ever before.

It was the British who played a major part in this trade."

Source provided:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z22nfg8/revision/1
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0 ups, 4y,
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While you are just now interested in facts, look up the pre-18th century slavery practices of Moors and Muslims. They engaged in slavery for centuries, and enjoyed a particularly lucrative business of it via constant raids on tribes living along western African coasts. Into the eighteenth century these same slave traders did business not just with white Europeans but also extended their business by trading with wealthy eastern buyers living in such domains as Turkey, the West Indies and present day Iran and Saudi Arabia.

I dislike the idea of slavery practiced by anyone or any culture, but I did go to college and have a degree in history. You on the other hand, are grasping at straws for an excuse to claim the slavery of Africans started and began with white people. And that, my friend, is not only racist, it ignores the fact slavery is still practiced in lands beyond the borders of the U.S. and Europe.
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1 up, 4y
The U.S. was part of the transatlantic slave trade though. OP isn't doing a world history lesson here, the meme is implicitly about U.S. politics.
0 ups, 4y
ImSpain was under the rule of Queen Isabella in 1492 when Cristobal Colon got to Hispaniola and began utilizing slaves soon after.

The only thing Spanish Moors were trading at the time was Islam for Christianity so they won't get killed.
0 ups, 4y
How many Blacks were just laying around in America? They weren't. People sailed to Africa & Africans sold people to the white settlers in America.
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