What hurts me most is that some of your people have maliciously
represented us in books that never die, alleging that we sell our
wives and children for the sake of a few kegs of brandy. No. We are
shamefully belied. Tell posterity that we have been abused. We do
indeed sell to the white men a part of our prisoners and we have a
right so to do. Are not all prisoners at the disposal of their
captors? And are we to blame if we send delinquents to a far
country? I have been told you do the same.
King of Dahomey to Governor Abson, quoted in A. Dalzel, the History
of Dahomey, London 1793, p.219
Kwesi J. Anquandah
Castles and Forts of Ghana,104
- In SALONEDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, Foday Ceesay <abcee101@...>
wrote:
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> African Captives Yoked in Pairs
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> click image for close-up For Africans destined to be
slaves in the New World, a long march lasting several months was not
uncommon. This 19th century engraving by an unknown artist shows
captives being driven by black slave traders.
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> European slave traders in Africa did not seize land from natives
and colonize the coast, as they did in their New World settlements.
Instead, they established a special relationship with local
chieftains, who allowed them to maintain trading forts along the
coast. Local Africans, rather than the Europeans themselves,
acquired and supplied slaves to the white traders.
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