Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 3 minutes later, 49 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,421,015
The point is that Africa wasn’t one country before it was colonized and if you actually bother looking into it, they weren’t actually selling "their own people."
Anonymous D double-posted this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,421,017
They were just selling POWs from other kingdoms. What kingdoms in west Africa are black? All of them? That’s the entire story. The Romans did the same thing. They enslaved Germans.