!!!LIFT HAITI UP IN YOUR PRAYERS!!!

[Glides]

this thread is full of ignorance.

Yes...it is, and you just added to it because you, like Revolution, only read what you wish to see.

The slave trade in the sense you speak of it did not start with Africans...hence the distinction "Transatlantic Slave Trade". Yes, sometimes people from other tribes were captured during times of war, and became slaves, but not slaves in the way you refer to it as. These slaves were enslaved for a time period, and after their debt was paid, they were eventually released and able to a) marry within the tribe or b) go back to their origin. There wasn't "slave labor"...you worked just as hard as your captor would work. It wasn't lifelong, generation passing, breeding, emasculating, rape, mutilating nor indentity/culture/language destroying and furthermore inhumane chattel slavery. THAT is what American slavery was.

Interesting. So in all that, you say that Slavery was not the way I put it....but here.

who did they sell and transport them to? lol. ohh, okay.

With that said, I am wayyyy off topic from the OP, lol.

I'm praying for Haiti.

You asked who they sold the very same people that you say were not the same slaves too?

Make up your mind dude. And please, read up on history and how it relates to what I said. African slavery started with Africans. End of story. They were either sold to each other, where yes, they could intermarry and it was by far the least devestating form of slavery, but it was still....slavery. Or, they were sold to the Arabs. Which was worse, but still not as bad as being marched to the coast and sold to the Europeans. Which was the worst.

But either way....they were sold by THEIR OWN PEOPLE!.

Let's not even get into the fact that the slave trade involving Blacks, is still alive and well to this day. They outlawed Slavery in Niger in ....2003! and it there are still slaves there to this day. Sudan, Mali, Mauritania, Ethiopia. Slavery of African Americans in the USA was terrible 400 years ago, for sure. But I don't see the people who NEVER suffered slavery jumping up to help people that are still being enslaved. Think on that.

Thank you, /discussion on Slavery.