Published by I wonder are my people aware of the history of the slave trade? I mean we all got here somehow, the question consumed me so I sought out the answer.At first I too blamed the white man because he is evidence of our labor, but who set us up who set the plan in motion that would take more lives than the Holocaust. There are more African souls dwelling in the waters that surround this great nation than 2 holocausts. But the question is how did it begin from where did the trade originate, Africa to America is a long way.
I sought out an answer someone told me that my great uncle sold me for some gold, that was too simple I dig deeper, all answers again point towards Europe. I do the logistics a nation against a few ships of armed men, I don’t think so after studying the art of war and understanding diplomacy and realizing that all violence is the result of failed communication, odds are the traders sent their best finery and smoothest talker not the biggest gun, fodder runs out, and there are a million Zulus on the horizon craving death. Not Likely.
My search brought me to the Moors, the Muslims of the day, and there I found the conspirator. Look at the map who’s closer Portugal Spain or Mecca? Ah ha I say I found him , He smiled with his gold teeth and saber Islam was his culture and with a traitor or two, a local chieftain with an ax to grind and a weak mind sold me for a few shekels and temporary power. These were worse than Judas because they did not feel remorse instead they aided and assisted until Foreign shore became my destiny. The saber imposed his culture but it was met with fierce resistance many great African warriors stood defiantly against the Horde, but personal grievances and the Judas Iscariot in weak men bound my ancestors the defiant for a life of slavery, their will is how we draw breath today.
At least Judas felt remorse, in the local chieftains and Imams there was none sending millions towards foreign shores daily their descendants live today in Liberia and The Sudan and send their own through the pits of hell for power look as their nieces trod the sands of Dar fur as they pray to the same God who enslaved them from the start. To each his own but know your history.
Over 28 Million Africans have been enslaved over the Muslim world over the past 14 centuries
A comparison of the Islamic slave trade to the American slave trade reveals some interesting contrasts. While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade. Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.
While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans Sahara and East African slave trade was between 80 and 90%!