is it true that blacks on the coast of africa went into africa and captured the slaves & sold them to french?

Question

i trying to find out if it true about the black africa on the coast went & captured their own people and sold them to the french. is that how slavery started

Answer 1

Hahah. This is true. I love to shove it in people's faces when they complain about how white people made them slaves. I'm like "IN YO FACE!"

Answer 2

Slavery has been around on every continent in every culture for ages. Asia had slaves. Europe had slaves. Africa had slaves.

It's impossible to say which culture started slavery, because is stretches back into every culture.

So NO thats not how slavery started. BUT it is true that black people sold black people into slavery.

But europeans did capitalize on the tribal conflictes by offering the various tribes guns and supplies to gain an advantage in their wars. Look it up.

The main difference is that slave trade in the W Indies and the US was a propensity for genocide.

In the history of the world, there has only been three time periods of mass murder solely based on race. The first was the founding of the 'new' world and take over from native americans. The first was slavery in the US. The third was the holocaust in europe.

Answer 3

That's true. Europeans didn't actually capture the slaves.

African society has always been very tribal, and the various tribes have often gone to war with each other. During in these wars, captured prisoners became the slaves of their captors. This went on for centuries before Europeans appeared in Africa. European slave traders simply bought the slaves belonging to one of the African tribes, transported them across the Atlantic, and sold them on for a higher price. It wasn't just the French they sold them to though. The Spanish and Portuguese had a very large slave trade, as well as Britain until it was outlawed in 1833, and Britain demanded that other nations follow suit.

1833 The Abolition of Slavery Act is passed. It brings into effect the gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies. Plantation owners in the West Indies receive £20 million in compensation.
1848 Slavery is abolished by France.
1851 Slave trading is abolished by Brazil.
1858 Slavery is abolished in Portuguese colonies although all slaves are subject to a 20 year apprenticeship.
1861 Slavery is abolished in the Dutch colonies of the Caribbean.
1865 Slavery is abolished in the United States following the Civil War.
1886 Slavery is abolished in Cuba.
1888 Slavery is abolished in Brazil.

Answer 4

No this isn't how slavery started.

Africa is a continent with different countries. In these countries you have different tribes. Back in the 15, 16, &1700's the slaves that were captured and sold were prisoners of tribal wars. That's pretty much how the American slave trade started. After a while the English got African tribes into raiding villages of their enemies and stealing them for slavery.

These prisoners were sold to the Dutch and Portuguese who then transported them to the Americas and into slavery.

The Arabs were into slavery long before this (and still are) but, this was slavery for their own use.

Answer 5

Yes, it is true. Some blacks became slave traders after escaping or earning their freedom and finding out their home villages were gone because everyone had been sold into slavery. Also, many native africans captured villagers and sold them to the white american and european slave traders.

Answer 6

Yes, I learned this in history class. In elementary school. The Africans of the time did not see it as selling their own people. It was simple economics. The people were already slaves, captured from neighboring tribes. The same principle applies to the Japanese forcing young Korean women into sexual slavery as "comfort women". Externally they may appear similar -- epicanthal folds, light/yellowish skin, straight black hair, typical Asiatic phenotype -- but it's not seen as the Japanese enslaving their own people, is it? It's in our history. Asians have enslaved Asians, Whites have enslaved Whites, Blacks have enslaved Blacks, Slavs have enslaved Slavs, Semites have enslaved Semites. The circumstance you put forth is no more "loaded" than these other instances.

Answer 7

not exactly. When European chase all the black people out of Europe (crusades) those black people went back to Africa. Needless to say they were not welcome, and war started.

The slaves that were being sold initially were prisoners of war. But the white man was paying top dollar (figuratively speaking) for slaves so once all the prisoners of war were gone, people just start kidnapping. Its all about dem dollars.

The fact is white people simply were not capable of going into inner africa and capturing slaves. The jungle is just to hostile for white mans biology.

Answer 8

at last someone that knows how the whole thing started that it was not the white man capturing and selling them into slavery but in fact was their own leaders that did so

Answer 9

Some African tribes took prisoners from other tribes and used them as slaves for themselves. And they also took them to sell to whites. The Dutch were huge slave traders.

Answer 10

It is true but they actually sold them to Arab traders....