An Addendum To the Recent Posts About Slavery

While I was discussing the differences between Western and Islamic views of slavery, I didn't want to leave out the role of black Africa itself in the slave trade - something else the media never talks about.

The slave trade among the West and the Islamic worlds could not have been fully developed without the Africans themselves offering slaves to them. The African powers entered into the slave trade entirely of their own accord. No opposition to slavery in principle ever came out of Africa. In fact, certain African chiefs actually sent delegates to the West to protest the abolition of slavery, because it was so profitable for them!

Just sayin...