2006-08-25 00:26:24 · 12 answers · asked by angelica l 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
People don't blame Caucasians for for the "slave trade" only for "slavery". Wheather or not Africans "sold" Blacks into slavery is not the point. Slavery in Africa was different than in America, very different. No "African" was aware of what what type of treatment they were to be in for. That's kinda like buying a gun and shotting a guy and blame the gun seller. But the agreement was to work for someone esle like they did for the Africans. But America didn't just let them work, they made their live bitter with hard bondage, point is America wrongfully oppress the stranger and not a nation from another continent.
No, Africans did not start the slave trade they probably to this day would have never left their land. The slave trade was started by Europeans, for Africans to start this trade they would have to have the ships and pack their own slaves take them to the New World and sell them.
But only for the slave trade can the "Africans" be partly blame not for slavery.
The Africans get 33%, Europeans 34% and Jews 33%. Many don't realize the Many Jews were involve in this trade.
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each ***** slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated."
by Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael
2006-08-28 20:47:24 · answer #1 · answered by justme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to blame anybody? were you a slave? That is the problem with a lot of the tension between African Americans and caucasions today. Someone is always wanting to place blame on someone else for saomething that hapened 100 years ago. I do not believe there is anybody alive today that was a slave. Why can't people quit dwelling on the past. Hell, my great grand parents weren't slave owners ,nor their parents, but yet because of the fact that i am white, I get blamed for slavery. I guess what I am trying to say is , why don't you start worrying about the future. You cannot change what has hapened in the past. I will not apologize for what happened back then, because i, nor my family had nothing to do with it. I can blame african americans for most of the crime where i live but i don't, because i don't know that they are fully responsible. And, unless it is a crime against me personally, I do not have the right to blame anyone. Slavery was a stupid mistake on somebody's part, but not mine, and whoever started it is dead, so why blame anyone.
2006-08-25 07:42:12 · answer #2 · answered by zeuster2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there were slave in Africa before the US. But in Africa, the slaves were not treated as badly as they were later in the US. Slaves in Africa were slaves because the owed a debt or something similar. AND THEY WERE NOT BORN INTO SLAVERY, AND THEY WERE NOT SLAVES FOREVER LIKE IN THE US. You have to know what the hell you're talking about before you pass the blame.
2006-08-28 19:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by Pamela N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many people to blame for the slave trade. 1) the missionary who came to Africa to convert the AAfricans to change their religion and culture. 2) the western governments who fund the missionary trips. 4) explores who came to explore the land . 5) the western society. their views on people lead to discrimination and slavery. 6) the frican tribal leaders. you might be shock but most of them were bribed and were taken advantage due to lack of communication.
2006-08-25 09:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by WEEDG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's too late to play the blame game. It happened over a couple of hundred years ago. It's time to move past it and go on with our lives. Stop living in the past.
2006-08-25 07:52:05 · answer #5 · answered by sheeny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for bringing this up! The tribes in Africa would capture opposing tribes and kill them or eat them...then, they discovered they could sell them! Well, well; it's the ultimate black on black crime and nothing new to society. My heritage is Scot-Irish and the poor Irish endured indentured servantery, were sent to war immediately off of the immigration ships when they couldn't even speak the language; were made to dig ditches in N.O. that the plantation owners wouldn't even let their slaves dig. They died by the thousands of malaria and dysentery in the streets and were considered lower than animals. So not just one select group was persecuted by slavery. I guess it all boils down to the survival of the fittest, as it does in any "animal" kingdom. I'd rather be in the USA than any other country in the world! Thanks God for my ancestors and their strong genes. Great Question!
2006-08-25 07:45:39 · answer #6 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
slavery was not just a black /white thing... native americans use to raid other tribes and take captives to use as slaves ... im part apache... the word apache is a hopi word meaning enemy... the egytians made slaves of the israelites... its been going on since ppl were on the earth--- doesnt make it right... just the way it was
2006-08-25 07:36:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
But of course. People are people and most of them are horrible. Practically all races have enslaved another race over the centuries...
2006-08-28 11:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by Ana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well for some people it's easier to hate everyone else than themselves.
2006-08-25 09:19:46 · answer #9 · answered by Pirate 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup! some people were sold by their relatives and they weren't white.
2006-08-25 07:32:38 · answer #10 · answered by koifishlady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋