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African heritage | EUROPEANS FOUGHT AGAINST 
AFRICAN KINGDOMS
TO END THE SLAVE TRADE; IN AFRICA,
 SLAVERY NEVER ENDED | image tagged in slavery | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
2,349 views 50 upvotes Made by CraigThompson 1 year ago in politics
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9 ups, 1y,
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and 0bama brought back slavery to Lybia...
0 ups, 1y,
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Oh please, Past Presidents wanted Gaddafi gone too, but I bet you weren't opposed to the Invasion of Iraq.
0 ups, 1y,
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Oh Please... do tell me why the US crashed the country with the best living conditions in Africa...
0 ups, 1y,
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Here's why: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/african-intellectuals-remember-late-muammar-gaddafi-as-pan-african/2397444
There's more where that came from.

Also why don't you explain Reagan Bombing Libya in 1986. who happened to be what? Oh Yeah! A Republican. GOPtards act like they cared about Gaddafi, but they wanted him gone too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya
0 ups, 1y
"Libya is now a haven for human traffickers because of President Barack Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

Their deliberate destruction of Libya was a war crime by all standards of international law. That country was just one victim of the American plan to eliminate secular governments in the Middle East. Under the guise of a phony “responsibility to protect” and with cover from organizations such as Human Rights Watch, American propaganda gave an atrocity the appearance of a humanitarian act. Now come reports from media and the International Organization for Migration that African migrants are being openly bought and sold in Libya. This practice would not be taking place if Muammar Gaddafi not been murdered by American backed jihadists in 2011.

Obama’s evil success in Libya set off an endless trail of disasters. Libya is a hot bed of ISIS activity along with Iraq and Syria. It is not a coincidence that all three countries were targets of American regime change. Even the American ambassador in Libya fell victim to his government’s machinations in Benghazi."
9 ups, 1y,
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But, but, but...without it, how will we drive electric cars?
7 ups, 1y
Slavery is just a concept like Antifa. We can rename them "Environmental Justice Workers."
4 ups, 1y
Reparations, if any, should only come from African nations, the origins.
3 ups, 1y,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHShIEP2DRE
3 ups, 1y,
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This is one of the best produced "white people are the real victims here" videos I've ever seen.

Total bullshit, but well-produced.
3 ups, 1y,
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Study the reasons why Barbary War I happened.

Sad truth of the world - At one point or another all our ancestors were either the slaves or the slave owners.

None of us living today has any real right to mount and ride this particular high horse.
3 ups, 1y
You are correct, sir. Historic guilt is ridiculous and is only a tool for manipulation.
3 ups, 1y
Europeans and Africans were both guilty. Slavery in the New World was a team effort. The video is only part of the story. Don't take it out of context. Sorry, but history is not binary. Good and bad is a mental construct that is meant for children.
0 ups, 1y
Europeans fought against African Kingdoms, and yet here's the difference between European Slavery and African Slavery:
How did the Europeans justify their enslavement of people? Racism. They made up the crap and even used the BIBLE to say that Europeans were genetically Superior to the Africans, and that they were meant to be slaves, because they are descendents of Ham (One of the sons of Noah, who's son was cursed because Ham "saw the nakedness of his father"). The curse of Ham made it to where all his descendents were evil or something like that. The Europeans used that curse to say that all the Africans (and Black folks) were his descendents. And not to mention, the Europeans treated their slaves quite Harshly, and the many slave rebellions says it all, especially the Haitian Revolution

Now in contrast, African Slavery
Slavery in various forms has existed throughout human history. Africans enslaved people long before Europeans arrived — as did Europeans and Asians.

Africans enslaved by other Africans usually were criminals, debtors or war captives, historians say. African slaves generally had rights that included the right to own property and to marry free people.

In conclusion, European slaves were a piece of property, with no rights. Slavery within Africa was different. A slave might be enslaved in order to pay off a debt or pay for a crime.
That's the difference. Those African Kingdoms didn't go calling their own slaves "[censored for obvious purposes]" or any slurs like that, Europeans did.
And note, even after the end of slavery, Belgium was still doing that in the Congo Free State, and there were still a bunch of Genocides, Herrenvolk democracies (Herrenvolk Democracy - a system of government in which only a specific ethnic group participates in government, while other groups are disenfranchised), Revolutions for Decolonization to be TRULY FREE, Civil Rights Movements to even give these black people equal rights, Civil Wars to Free Slaves (Like for example in the US), and Other things.
Also to note that Haiti, a Slave-lead Nation ended slavery before most of those European Empires did.

https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/#:~:text=While%20African%20slaves%20did%20grueling,rowing%20the%20corsair%20galleys%20themselves.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2019/05/23/fighting-myths-misconceptions-and-misunderstandings-about-race-slavery-and-the-civil-war/
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1 up, 1y,
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......ssssssso then Europeans failed?

Or were they actually successful at the opposite of what you were saying?

One or the other
5 ups, 1y,
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4 ups, 1y,
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Slavery is an African tradition that was adopted by Europeans and brought to the New World. It never really took off in Europe itself because they had plenty of poor people willing to work for next to nothing. Briefly, there were African slaves in Western Europe but they were more of a status symbol for the wealthy.
4 ups, 1y
0 ups, 1y
Really? If it was African Tradition, explain why the Romans had slavery, which I'm pretty sure predates the Africans or Europeans you're talking about. Alexander The Great's Empire also had slavery. It was not an African Tradition, It was Afro-Eurasian, and no one got it from the Other.
5 ups, 1y,
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2 ups, 1y,
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The Church had ended slavery in Western Europe. The slave culture of Western Europe had been long forgotten by the time of the Atlantic slave trade.
3 ups, 1y,
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2 ups, 1y
Yes, the Church was compliant in the Atlantic slave trade. The Popes could have stopped it, but they did not. I don't know that story. Would be interesting to know.
2 ups, 1y,
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Greeks, Romans, Germanic tribes, and Celtic tribes all had slaves. Everyone knows that. I am talking about Christian Western Europe at the time of the Atlantic slave trade. 1600-1800. Yes, Ottomans had slaves in Eastern Europe then. Did I really have to explain all that? You knew what I meant. Why are you always playing jail-house lawyer with me? It's not helpful. It only slows things down. If you want respect you have to give it.
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1 up, 1y,
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Oh, I'm sorry, did you want me to rush straight past the mistakes you make so that nobody else notices them?

Let me think it over.

ok, I've thought it over: no.
2 ups, 1y
2 ups, 1y,
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You can't deny everything in the OP is true. You can only come up with strawman arguments.
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1 up, 1y,
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I DID dispute the OP! Remember? Go back to the top of the thread and read it again!
2 ups, 1y,
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Europeans fought African kingdoms to end the slave trade. True or false? Slavery still exists in Africa? True or false? No straw man. No BS.
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1 up, 1y,
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Well, if they did, they couldn't have done a very good job of it given the second part, could they?

(Which is one of the many ways you can tell that it's extremely false.)
2 ups, 1y
No. Europeans could not completely end slavery in Africa. They were able to end the Atlantic slave trade. It's complicated. In some cases, European powers declared war on African kingdoms with the excuse of ending slavery, but their true motive was colonization. Two contrary things can be true at the same time. Sorry you're having trouble with that, antithesis. We live in an analog world. Binary thinking doesn't work.
2 ups, 1y
You are still avoiding the OP.
2 ups, 1y
Europeans traded with African kingdoms but because of diseases, Europeans could not colonize Africa until much later. Not sure what you mean by "picking on African kingdoms in the 1400s." Have you got an incident in mind?
2 ups, 1y,
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Which was really small in the Grand Scheme of things. The "Empire" was only about the size of the US west coast. "Little Thing" indeed. Hollywood blew that era way out of proportion.
2 ups, 1y,
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The original Egyptians were Black. Marinate on that. Everything starts to make sense once you realize that.
2 ups, 1y,
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The Bible speaks of Noah's slavery in Egypt. You must realize the Egyptians are Black in order follow the story. Jacob spawns the 12 tribes of Israel with 4 wives, Rachel, Leah, Bilhah, Zilpah. Bilhah & Zilpah are black. Those tribes end up in Ethiopia. They are the lost tribes.
1 up, 1y
And we lost him folks. Atleast he told us where he fell off... The absolute beginning. So why was he arguing to begin with? That's their whole goal, to create confusion. They know they are wrong to begin with. Tell them they are wrong and be done with it.
1 up, 1y,
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Egyptians weren't Africans... "Okaaay" & California didn't used to be Mexico huh?
2 ups, 1y
Greeks, Italians and Spaniards are not ethnically European. They were all conquered by the Moors.. Muslims.. or North Africans. Google images of the Basque people.. This is how the Spaniards should look if they weren't mixed with African blood.
1 up, 1y
Why are you posting silliness and distractions? Will you ever address the OP? No. Because you can't. The OP contains two indisputable facts and nothing else.
3 ups, 1y
Modda, you have no clue what you are talking about. European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and North African peoples have mixed for millennia. Your Nazi ideas about pure race are ridiculous. Please look it up.
2 ups, 1y,
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Watch this video if you are sincerely interested in the history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHShIEP2DRE
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