Politics something I thought I would only have to do in high school and in college but no luckily I can add history to this so rad. The topic of slavery is the only one that I know well the nutshell variant in school was white people poopoo butts for taking free and happy Africans from their homeland then enslaving them because American capitalists are corrupt and rich. #Blacklivesmatter #Alllivesmatter #whenwillgodtakeme #Blacksriseup #Communism #Scratchthatlastpart. Before I get into my main points you need to discuss that they weren’t enslaved just because “YA YOU BLACK YOU DOODOO BAM YOU WORK FOR ME NOW NOOB TAKE THE L” it wasn’t just because of the skin tone it was also because Spanish and Arabian slaver groups were already used to taking blacks because they didn’t have many defenses against some swords and muskets this made Africa easy pickings. Africans as well knew farming so this would come in and help immensely for profits. Alright, context why blacks OP slaves over. The thing is it isn’t just America it was mostly the Spanish taking blacks and actually you can easily count a big part of the slaves from Africa were captives and already slaves being sold to Spanish by Africans….. Alright sounds weird I know why would you enslave your own ethnic people. You have to talk about tribe battles and now civil wars Africans mainly that Africans were fighting each other for meat, fruits, and such because they did know farming but they didn’t always have land for farming so hunting and gathering was one of the main sources of food. So they had to fight and fight over farmland or fight over food. This would lead into my points that Africans didn’t have much defense well now they have the firepower to overtake other tribes or even they got attacked by Europeans they now have a fighting chance do you notice something like a cycle maybe be forming. Africans have religious wars or just raids for supplies now the winner has all these prisoners they have no use for so they trade for weapons and other things prisoners are sold to European slavers then repeat. You could even relate this to now Africans attack villages to take land from a strong power in their land so then people there suffer but now they have all the villagers things they have no use for so they sell that for money for then they which use onto increasing their war efforts by an illegal weapon seller. This trend is still in the world Africans simply are victims not just to Europeans but also to their own ethnic people’s different religions and thoughts. Europe could never be able to take all these 20 million in the land they didn’t but the numbers they received from their raids and wars onto the ethnic people would have never been that high without the Africans who were giving up their own people. I’m going to end this up soon but I can understand people who say “The rich capitalists didn’t have to enslave them they could have got workers and pay them.” Well yes but actually no you see many people coming in the new world were seeking their own fortune cheaply and slaves were cheap they knew how to farm all of that good stuff so they took it then we have all of this. The kings and queens that were funding the expansions were wanting to get a lot of more money than what they had put into it so the slaves were there they were cheap and had experience soooooooooooooooooo bam workers. They would most likely do another solution as long it was cheap but there wasn’t so they took what they could get and now people are counting all of this as still happening but not focusing that Africans are fighting each other. America isn’t the only ones to blame it was simply the case of taking something without even thinking about it. My lord my arm hurts welp time to make it hurt more with playing on my Xbox.
Links or Sources PBS: Why Did Europeans Enslave Africans? https://www.pbs.org/video/why-did-europeans-enslave-africans-srl1wr/ Digital History: Enslavement of Africans by Africans http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=445