How European Powers Backed African Rulers Who Participated in the Slave Trade, and Targeted Those Who Resisted
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History is rarely as simple as “Africans sold Africans.” That sentence has become a convenient way to shift attention away from the system that made the Atlantic slave trade possible in the first place. The truth is that Europe did not simply arrive on the African coast and buy captives. European powers became deeply involved […] TalkAfricana
