Re: Slavery,who was responsible?

Jacob Alexnder Mannix (draconis@cats.ucsc.edu)
17 Feb 1995 20:00:39 GMT

Camilla Cracchiolo (camilla@primenet.com) wrote:

<deletia>

: Slavery meant a very different and far less cruel thing to Africans and
: Arabs. Would the Africans still have sold peoples they conquered to
: European slavers? I tend to think yes. But most didn't realize what
: they were sending people off to.

Actually, a commonly held belief among the Africans involved in the slave
trade was that the Europeans were cannibals, for they could not imagine
how they could need so many people all of the time.

: Read the books. They're very interesting.

But only if they have pictures... :)

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