One of the miss-guided myths about the Slave Trade is the one sided stories, manufactured history about White People and the slave trade, as its projected as if their was only one race who was involved in the Trading of Black People from Africa to the New World as the White European Traders. Oh! No! the reality is far from what you see in museums all over the place, the book, the magazines, that are so one sided, that one begin to belive right through my school days and adult life that the slave trade was a white European trade, carried by Merchant from mostly Western European Nations. This is far from the truth.
Our dear Arab brothers from the Yemen coast in the Gulf Of Arabia with their sea going Dow has been sailing down the East Coast of Africa buying Black People from the Chiefs, the Elders and Merchant of the East and Central Africa long long time before Columbus landed in the Americas. The Ocean going Dow that traded up and down East African coast traded in Black African People, and they were able to set up trading post in various part of the East African Coast, and the Island of Zanzibar they install an Arab Kingdom with a Sultan as the ruler, who became the all powerful ruler and thus was able to ship thousand of Black People as Slaves to the Arab world. That why today you find Black People all over the Arab world as they have been their for centuries and are now deep rooted in all these countries.
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