Better, worse, it's all subjective

The slaves obvs didn't like it

So depended if you care about a slave or a chieftain

No, it isn't subjective

Do you think that if These Kingdoms knew the fates of the slaves that they sold, do you think they would have stopped or reduced the slave trade?

It very much is as it's left up to your own personal feelings and interpretations of what happened vs what could have happened

Im fairy sure they did know

Odds are it would have been an equally as shitty reality

And the slaves were captives from war or criminals

But that's up to the individual to speculate

So I don't think the African slavers cared

It's speculative, not subjective

I’ve actually heard black people claim that blacks should be grateful for being educated, Americanized, bla bla

I think this is pretty pathetic tbh

Yeah lol

Yeah it is

People underestimate the success and modernity of African kingdom's

It is subjective

Europeans destroyed Africa

Im ayapathu

You can not objectively claim something is good or bad

Año

Most African Americans come from west Africa
and west Africa was the most urbanized part of Africa

I don't know who the ayapathu are, which state?

Nobody should be justifying the enslavement of their own race/ethnicity that’s stupid

They enslaved other tribes or people's tho

Africa wasn't homogenous

tfw people say “why did Africans enslave their own kind”
That’s like saying “Why did Europeans enslave their own kind”

enslavement transcends race

It's about the defeater and the defeated

I mean more generically the African Americans who justify their ancestors being slaves

Or downplay it, I should say

Odds are if Europeans left Africa alone they would've still enslaved each other or been enslaved by some other hypothetical people

Mayhaps

Probably to some extent

Slavery was practiced in Ethiopia for a long time.

The difference is where the labor from these slaves was utilized

Slavery in Africa existed before and after Europeans lol

They just took the step of putting them on boats first

I know that Dahomey didn’t even use slaves
The slaves they didn’t sell they’d just brutalize them
Dahomey was capturing too many slaves to sell lmao

Seems like a waste

There will always be a use for labor