Wednesday, January 22, 2014

This chapter has to be the most horrible chapter of the text. I thought that the past chapters were horrible, but this one took the cake. I cannot imagine how other high-ranking African nobles allowed other Africans to get enslaved by Europeans. The only part of this chapter that I enjoyed was when the company of British that enslaved Africans got beaten up my the king of what is now Gambia named Sambalama beat them up and held them for ransom money. Know that is what I call a pay back, but after the money was paid all the operations went back to normal. The other thing that I found disturbing was how the nobles set rules that most of the people they were going to enslave had to be a great majority male. They wanted this because they wanted to keep all the females for them as slaves or as wives, so they could feel a higher level of nobility. I cannot imaging seeing these nobles giving the OK to enslave opposite tribes. The new world demanded a lot of slaves, but I wonder why the Europeans did not take any noble, but we have accounts of one by the name of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo. He was a noble man with slaves trying to sell them he went into the dangerous part of Africa and got enslaved. Diallo tried to contact his father for help but was unable, so he got sent to Maryland. After coming back, from the new world because he was smart and could show his owner that he was smart, he did nothing to stop Europeans from enslaving other fellow Africans. I cannot believe that after he personally witnessed all the hard work and mistreatment of the slave owners, he did nothing to stop future people from suffering. What he did, when he arrived back to his hometown, he bought two slaves and had a normal life. This is the weirdest person in the world.                

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