And finally, it’s absolutely true that Africans helped enslave other Africans. But why? Because of the economic incentive created by Europeans to kidnap and sell people. Without an economic incentive, what would be the point of ripping human beings away from their families, imprisoning them in the most squalid and horrifying conditions, and selling them to slave traders to be shipped across the Middle Passage, where hundreds of thousands of them, possibly even millions, would perish before ever reaching the New World?
