The West did not invent the African slave trade

[rangerrebew]

The West did not invent the African slave trade
Matthew LittlefieldDecember 4, 2019

 

You will often, particularly online, hear people say something like this; the African slave trade was a ‘racist, white, patriarchal colonialist institution’, it was the white man’s hatred of the black man that fuelled the slave trade.

Now, putting aside the fact that the word ‘slave’ developed from ‘Slav’, the white eastern Europeans who were taken as slaves so often their names became synonymous with the institution of slavery in Europe, this idea that the African slave trade was a ‘white, patriarchal, colonial institution’ is both ahistorical and ridiculous.

Did Colonialists engage in it? Yes. Did racists engage in it? Yes. Did white Europeans start the African slave trade? No. Long before white Europeans engaged in the African slave trade, Muslims, and prior to that Arab slave traders were heavily involved in running Slaves to and from Africa. How far does this go back? Well at least a few thousand years actually. Genesis 37:25-28 says this:

https://caldronpool.com/the-west-did-not-invent-the-african-slave-trade/

[Absalom]

African Slavery was home grown and the residue of chronic Tribal Warfare
which predated the Fertile Crescent.
One day some smart lad whispered in the Tribal Chief's ear:
"Hey Chief, we can make buck by selling these war prisoners rather than
killing them" and voila the slave trade was born.
Soon after, Arab Corsairs of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean showed up as
the bus drivers for the enterprise and the rest is history.
Someone alert Littlefield!!!!!