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Originally Posted by rogueteens
The Africans were doing very well out of slavery well before the Europeans arrived - and as you know, but I'm sure you chose to ignore, did very well out of selling their countrymen.
Ruin every chance of progress? Like they did before the white man arrived? Have a little chuckle to yourself and see, for example, how late they were at discovering the very basics like mixing metals compared to every other civilisation on earth. If the Europeans hadn't arrived, the sub-Saharan Africans would still be hundreds of years away from their equivalent of the dark ages and a thousand years from an industrial revolution.
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Well, they did not sell that much own countrymen. Usually they sold people from other countries/ tribes. As did for example Greeks, Romans, Vikings, etc.
About the rest of the stuff. Africa is not that good place for the same kind of stuff than for example Europe is. European settlers had fucking hard time in Africa. Africans were quite well adapted for their environment. Although if your goal is industrial revolution, etc. that is another matter. Europeans might have brought "modern age", but Africa isn't still over it. Modern age and Africa don't mix that well.
Sub-Saharan Africa has by the way had big civilizations, but those have got fucked up due to environmental changes, etc.
"Metalworking in West Africa has been dated as early as 2500 BC at Egaro west of the Termit in Niger, and iron working was practiced there by 1500 BCE.[24] In Central Africa, there is evidence that Iron working may have been practiced as early as the 3rd millennium BCE.[25] Iron smelting was developed in the area between Lake Chad and the African Great Lakes between 1000 and 600 BCE, long before it reached Egypt. Before 500 BCE, the Nok culture in the Jos Plateau was already smelting iron."
History of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia