Prior to the invasion of Europeans and the slave trade, they were sharecroppers, participated in trade, ruled over and governed large tribes, and established defenses against their enemies. They were not helpless and in needed of saving as propaganda suggest. Their downfall was that they didn’t to have access to moderns forms of protection and that they were not unified as one nation. If they were unified they could have prevailed against the European invasion.
The wealth that was acquired through the slave traded was far reaching, from the local tavern owner to securing the rise and empowerment of nations. The wealth gained by these nations, their merchants, land owners, and sea captains, was astonishing. Before the slave trade, many of these nations were in decline, this is why they were searching for new prospects and ventures in which to trade. It truth the Europeans were the ones in need of saving, they needed to refill their coffers. Africans were content with what they had and how they were living. They were not traveling new lands searching for …show more content…
If anyone held the title of savages it was they. Their conduct towards Africa and Africans were barbaric. Savior by definition is: redeemer, rescuer, liberator, deliverer, protector. Savages by definition is: barbarians, brutes, thug, beast. Europeans through brutal forced and the terror of death, transported for slavery over 13,000,000 people from their home land without their consent. Millions more were murdered along the way and countless committed suicide to escape. Raped, violated, brutally beaten, branded, the annihilation of cultures, languages, the confiscation of artifacts all done to one group of people to server the capital interest of others. Retribution is clearly in order, however, I do not feel that it will ever get to the table for discussion. The debt owed is too steep to be