Thank you! The fact that Africans were captured and sold by other Africans was quite unexpected for me.

• Yulya Ponomaryuk

Thanks, Anna.When most people consider the phrase slave trade, they are often thinking of white over black people. The association is very easy: white supremacy. What we must remember above all is that slavery was business. Blacks, as well as whites, profited from the slave trade. And furthermore, white people have been slaves, as have been black people, yellow people, and red people. Here is something to read about this: https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/

• Anna Vasilyeva 

thank you for the information, its really shameful thing in the history of humanity but now a days we all live in this concept of slavery for all ethnic but with slate differences between the individuals and communicates. as Charles Bukowski says : Slavery was never abolished; it was only extended to all races.

• Hawraa hawraa7

Thank you for this interesting fact! At first blush, it seemed rather unexpected and shocking. I reckon that such enslavery of Africans by Africans was an inevitable course of action: they could not but face those harsh realities; otherwise, they would be captured themselves.

• Natalia Borodina

Absolutely agree, before there was a strong division of the population according to national and other criteria, and the richest ruled the countries and people as now.

• Anna Usoltseva

Thank you for the information about the first African slave owner. As the viedo says, most of the African slaves are captured and sold by their fellow countrymen. Indeed, at first the Europeans were incapable of capturing such a large amount of African slaves by their own. Some of the local tribal leaders and kings became accomplices of the western colonists.

• Xiaoshi Zheng