we were discussing this in class the other day (college level world history) and my teacher said that if the Slave Trade never happened, Africa would have about twice the population it has today.
So I asked "how would that effect Africa, do you think?" (because we were doing a round of "what if" questions). Well nobody said anything so I said, "When I think of africa, the most dominant thoughts in my mind are war, genocide, mass rape, starvation, and poverty. If the population was twice what it is now, I'd imagine these things would be even worse, or that they would eliminate the extra population anyway."
Well my teacher acted like I was trying to justify slavery, so I got shut up real fast, but I wasn't trying to justify anything. I'm just saying that maybe alternative paths of history wouldn't have been much more shining bright and happy.
so anyway, what do you think would happen if the Atlantic Slave Trade never happened?
2007-07-12
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