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Yeah. Sadly folks often see it as "White people invaded and started enslaving black folk". But that's not what history tells us.
Slavery existed long before colonisation was a thing. There were white slaves as well as black slaves. White people selling white people. Black people selling black people.
And when white folk started buying black slaves from Africa, it was black slave traders doing the selling.
So yeah, white people definitely did their part in slavery. But black people aren't exactly innocent. Pretty much all races are guilty of it in their history.
Often overlooked is how the British Empire ended up abolishing slavery across the empire. At the time, the British had spread so far across the world, it basically ended slavery in the majority of countries.
America kept the slave trade going though, buying slaves from Africa. So that's probably why so many people see it as *"white people owning black people" *, because in the last days of it, it mostly was.
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