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Africa Before American Slavery. The peoples of West Africa had rich and diverse histories and cultures centuries before Europeans arrived. Africans had kingdoms and city-states, each with its own language and culture.
9 paź 2019 · In Mali, and in some other areas of western and eastern Africa, as well as in throughout North Africa, Islam had already begun to play a significant role before 1500. Most importantly African societies were following their own patterns of development before the onset of European intervention.
The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long before European slavers arrived. They had a wide variety of political arrangements including kingdoms, city-states and other organisations, each with their own languages and culture.
The Manden Charter protected human rights, promoted diversity within communities and abolished the capture and enslavement of people through raids, a practice known as ‘slave-raiding’.
West Africa before the European slave trade. A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source. The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long before European slaver traders arrived.
The evidence for the antiquity of slavery in West Africa is not as clear-cut, but it is clear enough that slavery existed alongside various forms of servility in parts of the region well before the fifteenth century, when the Europeans arrived there via the Atlantic Ocean.
Three main centers of slave population in the Americas grew up in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. West African captives went first to the urban center of Lima in Peru and second, in Mexico, to Mexico City and Vera Cruz.
