@QvGxd@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms Islamic slavery differed from transatlantic chattel slavery because it was not explicitly race based or legally permanent, and it offered defined religious avenues for manumission (freedom) and social mobility.
@QvGxd@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms He said Europe leveraged gunpowder against Africans to exert power, he is correct. Transatlantic chattel slavery is considered the worst because it legally reduced human beings to permanent, hereditary property solely based on their race to fuel global industries.
@Kenboii345@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms There was a statue of William Wilberforce outside the Wilberforce memorial hall in Free Town Sierra Leone, the site was destroyed by fire in the 1950's
@Kenboii345@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms They didn't sell their own people, the sold war captives from rival tribes in exchange for goods and gunpowder. Many African kings had no idea what Chattel slavery was, when they found out they tried to get these prisoners back, king Afonso being one example.
@fititallin69@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms This is a popular view of someone who hasn't researched the subject. Africans traded war captives to Europeans for gunpowder and goods but had no idea about the reality of chattel slavery. There were no smartphones then. African slavery was vastly different to Chattel slavery
@Ianposts@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms I used to take this ignorant view as well until I learned the history. African slavery was vastly different to Chattel slavery, when the Africans found out what was really happening they tried to get the slaves back. King Afonso ruler of Kongo, Queen Nzinga, King Agaja....
@PombearClare@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms Pregnant womens bellies cut and unborn baby discarded overboard. Children and women were taken as sex slaves for the plantation chiefs. Improper use of hands was dealt with by amputation. Children were forcibly separated from mother at Auction to the highest bidder. I could go on
@PRHAMI@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms The massive payout to slave owners was not a peaceful gesture born out of pure British benevolence it was an act of political panic driven by massive, violent revolts by enslaved Africans on the plantations. Enslaved people did passively wait to freed by "white British".
@ungodlylibel@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms Get a grip Jeff, the motivation behind the west Africa squadron was to prevent other nations from gaining a massive competitive advantage.
@TheAngloCelt1@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms The massive payout to slave owners was not a peaceful gesture born out of pure British benevolence it was an act of political panic driven by massive, violent revolts by enslaved Africans on the plantations
@Dean76499849538@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms They enforced it for political advantage, if they hadn't the others would have had a huge labour advantage against them. Eventually that profit is filtered into military spending.
@_YaMumsYaDad@FreedomWatchGB@MontgomeryToms They didn't get a single penny in compensation. Instead it went to the enslavers. They were forced to carry on working (unpaid apprentices) until revolt freed them by their own hand.