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re: Watching Roots and its making me sick

Posted on 2/18/13 at 12:18 am to
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 2/18/13 at 12:18 am to
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It's pointing out that white merchants landing in West Africa to capture slaves (like in Roots) was not the practice of the time.


Right, better to pay the natives to do it for them. I guess you could say it was better for the natives? (They didn't have to be slaves)
Considering that the life expectancy for a Euro in W. Africa was about a month. . .they weren't that stupid.
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