>Face it, Europeans traded the slaves, but the ones doing the enslaving were the Africans themselves that have been doing it for at least 2000 years now. I know, facts hurt your feelings when all you care is to play the SJW... though life.
As I've explained, Western Africa had slaves before the Europeans came in, but the scale and treatment was completely different. The Wikipedia article you keep linking says they had a spot at their master's table and sometimes more wives than the master.
The creation of a large market for slaves changed things, and yes is still part of the reason it still goes on. A lot of people became entrenched in that field, and without a ton of better options are still in it only 130 years later. There are other causes, war in the Sudan and a lack of collateral for debt, but it's not some inate preference to slavery on Africa.
Calling me a SJW for refusing to eat the nineteenth century European propaganda makes it really hard to take you seriously.
>Let me guess, Portuguese and Spanish getting rid of the people oppressing and ENSLAVING them for centuries hurts your SJW feelings, cause Portuguese and Spanish are mostly white and as such they deserved to suffer?
Funny how there were still so many Jews and Christians in An-Andalus that they needed saving from their terrible captors, and that one of the first acts the Crusaders did was to murder the Christian Bishop of Lisbon. BTW, trying to justify the Crusades is another sign you're eating the nineteenth century propaganda bullshit. The bullshit that led to Estado Nova and Portugal continuing to show only love for Africa.
>BTW: "Historian John L. Vogt estimates that 10% of Lisbon’s population was black (BOTH ENSLAVED AND FREE) during the sixteenth century." It comes directly from the ARTICLE you so much love and defend, but I can't even expect you to be able to have that level of reading comprehension.
Wikipedia has a similar claim, dropping the "enslaved and free" part. All of the references are in books I can't access, nice dodge out of proving your nonsense again though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Portugal