I hope my question doesn’t offend anyone I genuinely want actual facts.
In some parts in Europe people often say that we tricked the Africans by buying their people with things like glass that look valuable but aren’t, but I don’t believe this to be true because it blames the African people and portrays them as stupid etc, so I wondered how it actually happened/started.
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I think it’s commonly understood that some were kidnapped and some were sold by tribe/village chiefs. Bought in exchange of what, that I need to look it up. But yeah, for sure many were simply kidnapped. But I don’t think that saying that some slaves were sold by fellow villagers is portraying Africans as stupid. Bear in mind that slavery existed also in Africa, so it could well be that they sold slaves.
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