It is hard for people like you to understand love of Country. WE love America, and appreciate her. You love what America can do FOR YOU. HUGE difference. I wish you could see this GREAT Country as I do, instead of just seeing how you can bilk the American taxpayer for your stimi.
To echo MDF - stop defending every insane comment by the far left.
The U.S. Colonies were formed in 1607 with Jamestown by....the British. 1776 was the first major breakaway from the tyranny of the....British. Did the founding of the U.S. accelerate Slavery? No.
Read this on how slavery occured. See the highlighted parts.
In short, there was ZERO European slave trade WITHOUT direct and FULL cooperation from the African Kingdoms. ZERO.
European participation in the slave trade
Europeans provided the market for slaves,
rarely traveling beyond the coast or entering the African interior, due to fear of disease and native resistance.
[100]
They typically
resided in fortresses on the coasts, where they
waited for Africans to provide them captured slaves from the interior in exchange for goods. Cases of European merchants kidnapping free Africans into slavery often resulted in fierce retaliation from Africans, who stopped trade or captured or killed Europeans.
[101] Europeans who desired safe and uninterrupted trade aimed to prevent kidnapping incidents, and the British passed the "Acts of Parliament for Regulating the Slave Trade" in 1750 which outlawed the abduction of free Africans by "fraud, force, or violence".
[101] In parts of Africa, convicted criminals could be punished by enslavement, a punishment which became more prevalent as slavery became more lucrative.
Since most of these nations did not have a prison system, convicts were often sold or used in the scattered local domestic slave market.[
citation needed]
A slave being inspected
In 1778,
Thomas Kitchin estimated that Europeans were bringing an estimated 52,000 slaves to the Caribbean yearly, with the French bringing the most Africans to the
French West Indies (13,000 out of the yearly estimate).
[102] The Atlantic slave trade
peaked in the last two decades of the 18th century,[103] during and following the Kongo Civil War.[104] Wars among tiny states along the Niger River's
Igbo-inhabited region and the accompanying banditry also spiked in this period.
[42] Another reason for surplus supply of enslaved people was major warfare conducted by expanding states, such as the
kingdom of Dahomey,
[105] the
Oyo Empire, and the
Ashanti Empire.
[106]
