For a very long time the idea that only Europeans were involved in the slavery trade that took Africans away from Africa to be used as slaves has been peddled and it is an absolute lie.
White Europeans and Black Africans worked together, traded together, to enslave other black African peoples.
In fact, African kings sold their own peoples to European traders. The idea that Africans could sell Africans is abhorrent but it is very much the way in which the slavery trade prospered.
As the song of the Cabaret movie goes ´money makes the world go around´. Even today there are individuals that would willingly sell their own countrymen and countrywoman for a profit. You do not have to go too far to find such individuals. Politicians of a certain political party now in government have received generous donations from a certain community and those donations are dictating British Foreign Policy.
Yes, it happend hundreds of years ago and it is happening right now in the United Kingdom.
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