African kingdoms raided and sold people of enemy Kingdoms

yes african people enslaved people to sell as slaves, there is hardly anything surprising about it. These sweeping racial groups didn't exist in Africa, as they didn't exist in Europe.

not their own people

The African slavers, who were the more domineering groups, clearly didn't see themselves as the same as the tribes which they subdued and enslaved.

Similarly a Polish man wouldn't think he is the same as a French man in Europe

Some guy in the Benin Empire didn’t get kidnapped by his own people and sold into slavery

It's retarded

You guys are forgetting the the jewish state of Israel had merchant guilds and traders that heavily invested in the slave trade.

They made lots of $$

It’s like me saying “Romans Enslaved other Europeans, Europeans look a like and are the same race, Therefore, Europeans enslaved their own people”

the romans didn't feel any connection to the celts and germanics whom they enslaved

Yes of course. But were talking about the time of slavery so stop trying to divert the topic

Lol slavery is garbage. Any society that used slaves is morally defunct

neither did the slavers from the kingdom of the kongo and wherever else the europeans received their slaves

felt any connection to the people they subdued and enslaved

they were different tribes and foreign groups

Its called being decadent mister cosby. look it up

I’m not, I’m giving a comparison to what you said, you act like they busted into their own people’s houses and just abducted them

so the europeans who bought the african slaves were decadent then?

Bro every great nation unfortunately has been built upon slavery

Wait what’s happening

African history discussion

Black people

The europeans offered a better life to the kids of slaves than they could ever hope for in africa

Yea because people were not good listeners and so authority had to intervene and force them into labour

@lemonsaw wdym

It's true, slavery was widely used in many civilizations. It still stands that they were morally defunct.

wouldn't they be happier staying with their families and communities?

But for their times they didn’t see it that way

i don't know if the germanic slaves the romans captured had a better life in the empire bro...

If I were an african, I’d rather live in my respected Kingdom than be forced to work everyday for the rest of my life

But if it means the next generations will live more happilly

well it was usually the kingdoms which enslaved the more primitive tribes but that's unrelated

Look at the Hebrew people, they where slaves to Egypt but out of captivity they had their own slaves

the euros bought slaves from african kingdoms, who enslaved and subdued less advanced tribes

Yea so if you are black then go back to africa.

Nah, Kingdom went after Kingdom

nah

Euro never brought slaves. Middle eastern traders the mos

The Oyo enslaved the Dahomeans, The Dahomeans enslaved them back, all that stuff

lol