Originally Posted by
Tomo-CIL
exactly - its history, rather than moan about street names, why don't all these councillors spend time doing what they're paid to do.
They are trying to air-brush history. It happened. The city apologised, but as yet no African nation has. The African tribes would enslave another - round them up, take them to the coast where Liverpool ships, amongst others, would take them across the Atlantic to the Caribbean or the southern States of the USA. Many of the slaves lived better lives in the Caribbean than being enslaved in Africa.
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The Africans did most of the slave trade work – which has also been air-brushed from history. White people could not go much into "darkest Africa" because they would contract diseases easily. They could only stay on the coast. Only when drugs came along could white people go inland - quinine and the likes. It was called Darkest Africa because no white people had been or could go there. The Portugese established coastal trading ports on the West Coast of Africa in the 1400s. White people had been on the West Coast of Africa a long time, yete only entered the interior not much more than 100 years ago - the late 1800s.
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