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Hold up. I'm all fine with apologising for slavery if one participated in it... But does this include everyone who participated, or is this another appearences type thing that completely ignores the majority of African slaves were bought from African slave markets run by various West-Coast African kingdoms?
How many people are going to come in here with the same stupid racist take this is getting ridiculous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/31/epiloguetothedebateonslav
History isn't racism. Slavery was everywhere.
Nice way to not address the facts you are presented with.
The thing you posted doesn't address that slave trade existed in Africa for thousands of years.
The trans-Saharan slave trade existed long before colonialism, and the major sponsers of this trade were Ghana and then later Mali (the latter of which profited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade when it started).
That's just accounting for West Africa, as the red sea slave trade existed during ancient Egypt, and continued until the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
If you want to present facts you'll first need to be educated enough to actually learn what facts are.
None of them industrialized slavery. The entire European economy was only getting ahead in the middle ages by slavery and colonialism
... Right... Egypt totally didn't... And Mansa Musa famously didn't have an industrial scale slave kingdom...
Egypt didn't invade other countries to hijack half its population and use it as cattle on their farms. Mansa Musa had slaves as far as the term slavery goes but they had some rights and weren't used as literal machine cattle. Their children had freedom etc. This is nowhere comparable to how slaves were treated in the trans-atlantic slave except it using the same word which is just confusing.
Oh yes. Yes they did. Oh gods they absolutely did. As well as casual genocide.
That depends. Every culture that did slavery had slaves that were worked to death and slaves that were used in the household.
Musa's personal slaves were dressed in silks and wore gold. But a portion of the still had their balls cut off, and all of them still had owners.
Thw same cannot be said for the slaves outside the royal palace, or all the ones used in the trans-Saharan slave trade, which, I must remind you once more, was Ghana's and Mali's biggest trade for centuries.
Dear MAGA Nazi loser virgin - kindly go fuck and then kill yourself.
I'm not American. And I'm not dying for anyone who can't be bothered to learn history.