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SLAVE TRADERS

Slave traders sent slaves to America but most slave traders were not white men like many want to think, but were black slave traders, meaning Africans selling other Africans into slavery! The slave trade to America got started in Africa when the Portuguese went to Africa seeking gold but found instead well organized African kings of countries that were delighted to sell the Portuguese as many slaves as they wanted to buy!

Eventually 11 million slaves were sold and sent out of Africa to the western world. When the Portuguese and other Europeans landed in Africa, the African economy was already well established and robust with well trained, ruthless, large armies organized for protection. Consequently, if Africans had not sold other Africans into slavery, slavery as we know it today in America would never have existed!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: PBS TV DOCUMENTARY AFRICANS AND AMERICA: AMERICAS JOURNEY THROUGH SLAVERY 6/9/01

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