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The majority of the Africans that were kidnapped from the continent of Africa were kidnapped by force and by violence through warfare, they were brought out of their villages, brought down to the coast, then put on those slave ships. In fact, no African country, no African nation in West Africa ever was a slave economy. No society in Africa, had its principle mode of production as slavery, it did not exist, that was only something that the Europeans invented and created.

— “But Africans sold slaves too” - 500 Years Later - Dr. Molefi Kete Asante explains how slavery among Africans and slavery among Europeans were completely different systems and should not be used as a point to derail discussions of slavery in an attempt to revert the blame on slavery’s proliferation to Africans. (via wavesoftware)

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