This is taken from THE GLEANER, article AFRICA'S ROLE IN SLAVERY.
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<span>In the Arab world, which was the first to import large numbers of slaves from Africa, the slave traffic was cosmopolitan. Slaves of all types were sold in open bazaars. The Arabs played an important role as middlemen in the trans-atlantic slave trade, and research data suggest that between the 7th and the 19th centuries, they transported more than 14 million black slaves across the Sahara and the Red Sea, as many or more than were shipped to the Americas, depending on the estimates for the transatlantic slave trade.</span>
The inescapable fact that stuck in my craw was: My people had sold me ... . My own people had exterminated whole nations and torn families apart for a profit before the strangers got their chance at a cut. It was a sobering thought. It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed." And we might add, the universal nature of slavery.
African kings were willing to provide a steady flow of captives, who they said were criminals or prisoners of war doomed for execution. Many were not, but this did not prevent traders posing as philanthropists who were rescuing the Africans from death and offering them a better and more productive life.
When France and Britain outlawed slavery in their territories in the early 19th Century, African chiefs who had grown rich and powerful off the slave trade sent protest delegations to Paris and London. Britain abolished the slave trade and slavery itself against fierce opposition from West African and Arab traders.The slave trade<span>. </span>The African state that played a very active and profitable role<span> in the translantic slave was? The Kingdom on Dahomey.
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Confirmation bias happened when a personal belief and desire are directly influenced. It is something like that when p[people want to confirm that it is true and they believing it that it is confirmed true. In this situation, we believe that information that we believe even we ignore other information that confirms it doubtful.
It indicates that we do not see the situation objectively but we see it subjectively so the belief is biased. Even we pick that data that feels us happy and confirmed our prejudice. It is also found in an anxious patient who always seeks that the world is in danger.
Ethnonationalism has occurred because of cultural blending and has had the most lasting effect on a country. It led to the dominance of the ethnonational states and has increased urbanization, literacy, and political mobilization. This is the result of cultural blending that I believe has the most lasting effects on a country.
