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The aftermath of the slave trade might be worse than the trade itself (697 hits)

This man his name is Tip Tipu. HE was working with arabs to bring slaves from east and central Africa to Zanzibar Island. Zanzibar was the Major Slave market in East and Central Africa.

The aftermath of the slave trade might be worse than the trade itself, mainly because the major participants in the trade have made a mission out of lying about the participation in this the greatest of all human tragedies. In the last twenty years the academic interpreters of the Atlantic slave trade have been pointing their fingers at the African participants, as though the trade could not have existed without them. Any honest researcher, familiar with the documents know that the role of the African was minor in comparison to that of the European and the Arab. The Atlantic slave trade was a three-continent industry that affected a revolution in shipping, in economics and in world trade.

Africans did not have this kind of connection at this juncture in history and besides the slave trade was mainly a European and an Arab business. I do not, in anyway intend to free Africans of any guilt for their participation in this trade – their involvement was tragic, misguided and not without significance but the slave trade would have occurred whether the African participated or not.