So it was that as the centuries passed, the pygmies and the Khoi were pushed from their own lands by the Bantu and often enslaved in the process. While on the subject of slavery in Africa, it is worth remembering that although Europeans and Americans are today wringing their hands and agonizing over the treatment of black African slaves a century or two ago, there are still plenty of black slaves to be found in the world, most of them in Africa itself. In the Republic of Congo, one of the areas conquered by the Bantu, many of the Pygmies who are the descendants of the indigenous inhabitants
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