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I've always heard white people say shit like "black people sold other black people!!!11111" but to see it being explained by the descendants of the people who actually did it is...a lot

Down the hill, near the river, in an area now overrun by bush, is the grave of my most celebrated ancestor: my great-grandfather Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku. Nwaubani Ogogo was a slave trader who gained power and wealth by selling other Africans across the Atlantic. ?He was a renowned trader,? my father told me proudly. ?He dealt in palm produce and human beings.?

When the transatlantic trade began, in the fifteenth century, the demand for slaves spiked. Igbo traders began kidnapping people from distant villages. Sometimes a family would sell off a disgraced relative, a practice that Ijoma Okoro, a professor of Igbo history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, likens to the shipping of British convicts to the penal colonies in Australia: ?People would say, ?Let them go. I don?t want to see them again.? ?

My great-grandfather was given the nickname Nwaubani, which means ?from the Bonny port region,? because he had the bright skin and healthy appearance associated at the time with people who lived near the coast and had access to rich foreign foods. (This became our family name.) In the late nineteenth century, he carried a slave-trading license from the Royal Niger Company, an English corporation that ruled southern Nigeria. His agents captured slaves across the region and passed them to middlemen, who brought them to the ports of Bonny and Calabar and sold them to white merchants. Slavery had already been abolished in the United States and the United Kingdom, but his slaves were legally shipped to Cuba and Brazil.

His influence drew the attention of colonial officials, who appointed him chief of Umujieze and several other towns. He presided over court cases and set up churches and schools. He built a guesthouse on the land where my parents? home now stands, and hosted British dignitaries. To inform him of their impending arrival and verify their identities, guests sent him envelopes containing locks of their Caucasian hair.

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but anyway...

Throughout my upbringing, my relatives gleefully recounted Nwaubani Ogogo?s exploits. When I was about eight, my father took me to see the row of ugba trees where Nwaubani Ogogo kept his slaves chained up.

After the man left, my father sat in his favorite armchair, among a group of his grandchildren, and told stories about Nwaubani Ogogo.

?Are you not ashamed of what he did?? I asked.

?I can never be ashamed of him,? he said, irritated. ?Why should I be? His business was legitimate at the time. He was respected by everyone around.? My father is a lawyer and a human-rights activist who has spent much of his life challenging government abuses in southeast Nigeria. He sometimes had to flee our home to avoid being arrested. But his pride in his family was unwavering. ?Not everyone could summon the courage to be a slave trader,? he said. ?You had to have some boldness in you.?

African intellectuals tend to blame the West for the slave trade, but I knew that white traders couldn?t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather. I read arguments for paying reparations to the descendants of American slaves and wondered whether someone might soon expect my family to contribute.

the whole thing is a long read but certainly worth it

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-great-grandfather-the-nigerian-slave-trader

[GRAND ETERNAL SUPREME]

Yeah....

Black people have been fucked UP

It's why I maintain death to EVERYONE

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I?ll remain skeptical. White ppl love to rewrite history and make themselves look less guilty

Went willingly! Sold by their own kind! Betrayed!

Sure their guns had nothing to do with it.

It?s a distraction and there?s no sufficient proof. It?s the old version of everytime a white cop guns down a black person. Oh but black on black crime!

It?s funny they don?t try any of these theories with the Asian salves they transported across South America and the islands.

[FlowerBomb]

Not WEST AFRICANS, don?t put that on us, blame the Nigerian chiefs
And of course it would be the Nigerians 

[Mariah4ever]

im startin' to b'lieve tht theory tht b'fore this world...there was anothr where black skinned ppl ruled...& fell........................
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[Kurama]

Struggling with this.

Humans are SHIT.

[Cartierline]

fkjkdjgd of course it's the Igbos that engaged in this shit

Yorubas would never

[GRAND ETERNAL SUPREME]

I?ll remain skeptical. White ppl love to rewrite history and make themselves look less guilty

!!!!!!!!

I do agree

But humans are... humans

TRASH

Plus my dad told me he witnessed this shit while traveling 

[Barbie Dangerous]

I?ll remain skeptical. White ppl love to rewrite history and make themselves look less guilty

!!!!!!!!

I do agree

But humans are... humans

TRASH

Plus my dad told me he witnessed this shit while traveling 

Your dad was a slave?

[FlowerBomb]

 

[FlowerBomb]

lash this BITCH ton
like....

[GRAND ETERNAL SUPREME]

But truthfully I dont trust ANYTHING from history that deals with anything in the social aspect

Books were all written by whites and they are disgusting creatures (sorry girls i love that are white, but yeah your kind caused every single major problem ever lol!)

I only trust science, which of course is also not 100% failproof

But, we have to put our faith in something.

[GRAND ETERNAL SUPREME]

I?ll remain skeptical. White ppl love to rewrite history and make themselves look less guilty

!!!!!!!!

I do agree

But humans are... humans

TRASH

Plus my dad told me he witnessed this shit while traveling 

Your dad was a slave?

you stupid BITCH

my dad IS from Africa

Why cant you fucking comprehend?

Maybe the girls were right when they said you were trolling

have you not heard of modern day slavery?

Shut the FUCK UP

or just DIE

STOP QUOTING ME

I can only take so much STUPIDITY in increments you dumb FAKE WOMAN BITCH

Stop pretending to be a white clueless womuh and come out as the FAGGOT that you are

I swear to god, I will infiltrate this fucking website and find your info bitch

DONT FUCK with me

[GRAND ETERNAL SUPREME]

you're BACK on steevys level bitch

no more kii kii hehe hahaing with you

youre done.

[Cartierline]

fkdjfkdjfdk ton has HAD it!