Chapter 9: Africa's Unknown Sins

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Hearing Stanley's words, the room became quiet for a while. No matter who it is, after knowing that he has done something bad, as long as he is not completely conscienceless, it is easy to feel guilty.

The sudden intrusion of Europeans broke the peaceful life of the local indigenous people for thousands of years.

"Mr. Stanley, you don't have to be so negative. This is probably the price you have to pay for civilization!" Constantine comforted.

"The price you have to pay for civilization?" Nina and Stanley were a little confused when they heard Constantine's words.

"The Bible records that God created the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve. For them, a paradise was built in a place called Eden. The garden is full of exotic flowers and fruits, and all kinds of trees grow there. The ground is covered with gold, pearls and red agate. The abundant river water flows through the garden, nourishing the land. Because of God's gift, the manor has a good harvest and abundant fruits." Constantine said.

Nina and Stanley listened to Constantine's story carefully. This story is nothing special. Almost all Christians know this story. There must be more to come.

"Eve and Adam lived happily in the manor, enjoying all kinds of harvests in the garden, free and unrestrained, and never knew what troubles were. Until one day, the two were tempted and ate the forbidden fruit in the garden, angered God, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden." The two listened to Constantine's words, connected with the situation of the natives in Africa before, and fell into deep thought.

"From then on, they entered the Lost Paradise. People had to work to get food to fill their stomachs. They worked hard just to make a living. They were not free until they entered the earth," Constantine said.

"Maybe this is the price that must be paid for entering civilization. The beginning of civilization was a disaster that violated human nature. Countless people fantasized about having such a paradise, where they could get any food without sweating and working hard in the land, and they could be free and worry-free." Speaking of this, Constantine himself felt deeply touched.

"Maybe now is the time for people in southern Africa to enter Paradise Lost. Of course, these are all biblical stories, so don't take them too seriously. Besides, we are far from being the snake that tempted Africans to eat the forbidden fruit (Ava Xiadang was tempted by the snake). You have to know that the Portuguese began to trade slaves there in the 16th century. The local chiefs used Portuguese muskets to fight and used captives to trade goods with the Portuguese," Constantine said.

"What's more, it wasn't a paradise in the first place. Before the Portuguese came, their tribes were fighting for hegemony, such as the Kingdom of Congo and the Kingdom of Kuba (all feudal regimes established by the indigenous people of the Congo River in Africa), so we don't need to let ourselves bear such a heavy moral burden," Constantine seemed to be comforting himself.

"In addition, as for the notorious slave trade, the Portuguese are rarely engaged in it now, but the Arabs are rampant," Constantine said.

Indeed, when it comes to slave trade, people will first think of the evil European colonists who sold black people to American plantations as laborers for profit, and those American slave owners cruelly exploited and abused slaves.

Indeed, this is a historical fact, but it is only a partial fact.

In the bloody and evil interest chain of slave trade, which is extremely evil and violates human ethics, which plantation owners and slave owners in America are at the downstream of this interest chain.

European colonists are responsible for buying black slaves, then transporting them to America and delivering them to slave owners, playing the role of intermediaries in this interest chain.

So who is playing the role of the upstream of this interest chain?

That is, who personally captured black people, looted black villages, massacred black people who dared to resist, turned black women and children into slaves, and then sold them to European colonists, these intermediaries?

Isn't this a louse on a bald head, it's obvious? Isn't it the slaves caught by European colonists.

Indeed, some of them were caught by European colonists themselves, but it was only a small part of them. The vast majority of black people who were trafficked were actually bought from others! ! !

The upstream of the interest chain, that is, those who personally captured slaves and sold them, played this role, not only the European colonists themselves.

In the early days of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese had done slave hunting, but it was only a small number and for a very short period of time.

Although the Portuguese were a colonial power, their national strength had never been strong. They mainly relied on trade to make money, unlike the Netherlands, Britain, and France, which were not only trade powers but also industrial powers.

Portugal's strength has never been strong, and its population is sparse. Therefore, the Portuguese did not have the ability to personally capture a large number of slaves in Africa.

The Portuguese were weak in national strength, so they were more inclined to obtain slaves through trade, such as using muskets, glass balls or other European goods.

During the main period of the slave trade, European slaves were purchased from the Arab kingdoms or Bantu kingdoms on the coast of Africa, rather than by the Europeans themselves.

Most of the providers of slaves have been forgotten by the world!

They are the Arabs.

Until the end of the 19th century, European colonists only set up outposts in coastal areas of Africa or on both sides of some navigable rivers to facilitate trade.

Their control over Africa was far from as strong as the colonial map of Africa shows. Even a large part of the territory was only assigned to a certain country on the map of European politicians, but the sovereign country may not have actually controlled most of the colonies from beginning to end. They only sent officials to manage certain key areas, such as mineral deposits and some areas suitable for growing cash crops.

In other words, Europeans did not have the ability to penetrate deep into the interior of Africa and capture black people on a large scale as slaves for sale.

After all, there were no railways in Africa, and the world had not yet invented airplanes and cars, which led to the inability of Europeans to capture black slaves on a large scale.

In addition, the white people in Europe were not suitable for the climate of Africa. At that time, there were no specific drugs for many diseases. For example, the invention of artemisinin for the treatment of malaria was after World War II. The cinchona bark used to treat malaria before had serious side effects.

Everyone knows that the white people in Europe carried out the evil black slave trade in the heinous colonial era, and African blacks were captured in batches and taken to various parts of the world as lowly laborers.

However, few people have noticed the Arabs' more than 1,000 years of prosperous slave trade history.

And the Arab world in the Middle East has never reflected on its history of slave trade.

This is different from the white people in Europe.

Until the 21st century, the relationship between black Africa south of the Sahara Desert and white Africa north of it was not good.

Because Arab countries turned a blind eye to their history of large-scale trafficking of black people.

The Arabs in the Middle East are the first race in human history to organize and large-scale trafficking of African black slaves, and their history of slave trade is far earlier than the Western slave trade.

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