NO ONE IS TO BLAME
We naturally think of Western Europe, when we speak of the 400 years of the African slave trade. But, anterior to Western European expropriation of Africans by 600 years, at least, was the Arab or Islamic slave trade. It dates back easily to the early 8th century, because in the 9th century, Al-Jahiz published his book in self-defense THE SUPERIORITY OF THE BLACK OVER THE WHITE, in defense of the Zanj, the blacks, his people in Basra . I have read this book, after learning of it from the works of Joel Augustus Rogers.
Of course, both streams of the African slave trade were fed by the stupidity and cupidity of African Chiefs and so-called wise men.
So, no religion is to blame, in that sense: neither Christian

, Muslims, nor Africans. Perhaps destiny is to be faulted, if anyone or any culture!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jahiz
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
AFRICAN ENSLAVEMENT
NO ONE IS TO BLAME
We naturally think of Western Europe, when we speak of the 400 years of the African slave trade. But, anterior to Western European expropriation of Africans by 600 years, at least, was the Arab or Islamic slave trade. It dates back easily to the early 8th century, because in the 9th century, Al-Jahiz published his book in self-defense THE SUPERIORITY OF THE BLACK OVER THE WHITE, in defense of the Zanj, the blacks, his people in Basra . I have read this book, after learning of it from the works of Joel Augustus Rogers.
Of course, both streams of the African slave trade were fed by the stupidity and cupidity of African Chiefs and so-called wise men.
So, no religion is to blame, in that sense: neither Christian

, Muslims, nor Africans. Perhaps destiny is to be faulted, if anyone or any culture!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jahiz