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Why would they have been captured and killed if not for

Posted on: August 29, 2025 at 14:06:54 CT
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the opportunity to sell them to slave traders?

It is my understanding that this was just not an opportunistic move by the Africans to profit from defeated enemies, but rather a concerted effort to find virtually anyone to be sold and shipped out.

Perhaps some of both scenarios.
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Serious question, who is worse: - hokie VT - 8/29 12:40:16
     Let's call it a push.........(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 8/29 14:15:31
     Had there been no market for those captives, they would have - BH O'bonga MU - 8/29 13:42:00
          Why would they have been captured and killed if not for - hokie VT - 8/29 14:06:54
               Only the young women and children would have value for the - BH O'bonga MU - 8/29 14:38:19
          not all of them - SwampTiger MU - 8/29 13:54:29
     both(nm) - tigerNkc KC - 8/29 13:07:24
     Probably #2, no good guys in your story(nm) - FIJItiger MU - 8/29 13:06:16
          I think I agree with you. The slave catchers in Africa were - hokie VT - 8/29 13:21:18
               Agreed. I also think it is unlikely they considered those - FIJItiger MU - 8/29 13:28:33
                    They probably viewed them as you view Trump supporters. - 90Tiger STL - 8/29 13:44:42
                         At least the slaves were useful contributors.(nm) - TigerMatt STL - 8/29 14:48:51
                              ok jg (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 8/29 15:45:51
                         That's right. Master Fiji(nm) - Wildcat KSU - 8/29 14:31:05
     both are(nm) - meatiger MU - 8/29 13:01:17
     A symbiotic and evil relationship. But one that far predates - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/29 12:46:37
          It is interesting. I think, that the North American slave - hokie VT - 8/29 13:05:30
               Seems unfathomable a single person believes it to be - FIJItiger MU - 8/29 13:09:21
                    To be unfathomable to you, something needn't be very deep.nm - hokie VT - 8/29 13:25:10
          they wouldn't have viewed them as their own people - SwampTiger MU - 8/29 13:04:44
     Dems - 1, anyone else - both....nm - tigertix MU - 8/29 12:41:55




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