Us Baglan boys are educated.
Just to expand on the post Neath_Jack scoffed at.
""We" enslaved no-one. It was the Africans that enslaved them. The Arabian slave trade was bigger than the North American slave trade, over a much longer time period, through to the 20th Century.
The Portuguese started the transportation of slaves."
1. "We" enslaved no-one. It was the Africans that enslaved them.
This is true. When the good old Pope decided to give the world to Spain and Portugal, drawing a line and giving the West of the line to Spain and East to Portugal. The Countries renegotiated the line between themselves, moving it further West, resulting in Portugal getting a bit of the New World (Brazil). Portugal started navigating a route East, circumnavigating Africa, travelling further each year, until finally getting around.
The Portuguese were surprised to find Cities in Africa en-route and set up trading posts, some becoming slaving fortresses years later. They looked for trade and amongst other things were offered slaves. They took some back to Portugal to exhibit. Slavery was ripe in Africa, although the slave conditions were not as harsh as the ones taken to Colonies, although some were sacrificed.
Later on the Portuguese started supplying their colonies and Spains with slaves, later British colonies became customers.
Britain took over the slave routes at the start of the 18th Century as part of a treaty after a war that Britain won.
Europeans never went into the jungles catching slaves, they only bought them at coastal Cities. The Africans enslaved them. When Britain outlawed slavery the African kings would not stop selling them as they made too much money.
2. The Arabian slave trade was bigger than the North American slave trade, over a much longer time period, through to the 20th Century.
Look up the Indian Ocean Slave Trade, where slaving started about 2000BC and never stopped until around the 1960's. Mainly taken to the Arabian Counties. Their conditions were harsh and the men castrated so they couldn't breed.
3. The Portuguese started the transportation of slaves.
See 1.
Slavery was accepted since biblical times, its still ripe today. Do we look to Italy because of the slaves Rome took or Norway/Denmark because of the Vikings? What about the Mongolians, Greeks, Egyptians?
All of Europe was colonizing, none are clean in history, but it is history. Stop modern day slavery, put some effort into that.
