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Hearing Stanley's words, the room became quiet for a moment. No matter who knows that he has done something bad, as long as he is not completely conscience-stricken, it is easy for him to feel guilty.

The sudden intrusion of Europeans broke the peaceful life of local indigenous people for thousands of years.

"Mr. Stanley, you don't have to be so negative. This is probably the price you have to pay to move toward civilization!" Constantine comforted him.

"The price that must be paid to move toward civilization?" Nina and Stanley were a little confused when they heard Constantine's words.

"It is recorded in the Bible that God created the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve, and built a paradise for them in a place called Eden. The garden was filled with strange flowers and fruits, and various trees grew there. The ground is sprinkled with gold, pearls and onyx. A rich river flows through the garden, nourishing the land. Because of God’s gift, the manor is full of crops and fruits.”, Constantine said.

Nina and Stanley listened carefully to Constantine's story. There was nothing unusual about this story. Almost all Christians knew this story, and there must be more to it.

"Eve and Adam lived happily in the manor, enjoying the various harvests in the garden. They roamed freely and unrestrainedly, never knowing what trouble was. Until one day, the two of them were tempted and ate the forbidden fruit in the garden, which angered them. They lost God and were driven out of the Garden of Eden." The two listened to Constantine's words, contacted the previous situation of the indigenous people in Africa, and fell into deep thought.

"From then on, they entered the lost paradise. People had to work to get enough food. They worked hard just to survive, and they were not relieved until they were buried in the earth." Constantine said.

"Perhaps this is the price that must be paid to enter civilization. The beginning of civilization was a disaster that went against human nature. Countless people dream of having such a paradise, without having to sweat their backs and work hard on the land. If you work hard, you can get any food, travel freely, and have no worries." When he said this, Constantine himself felt deeply.

"Perhaps now is the time for people in southern Africa to enter Paradise Lost. Of course, these are biblical stories and should not be taken too seriously. Besides, we are far from the snake that tempted Africans to eat the forbidden fruit (Ava Shad Seduced by a snake), you must know that the Portuguese began to conduct slave trade there in the 16th century. The local chiefs used Portuguese muskets to fight and used captives to trade goods with the Portuguese," Constantine said.

"What's more, it wasn't a paradise to begin with. Before the Portuguese came, their various tribes were not fighting for hegemony, such as the Kingdom of Congo, the Kingdom of Kuba (both feudal regimes established by the indigenous people of the Congo River in Africa), etc., so There is no need for us to carry such a heavy moral burden on ourselves," Constantine seemed to be comforting himself.

"In addition, as for the notorious slave trade, the Portuguese are rarely engaged in it now, but the Arabs are very rampant," Constantine said.

Indeed, when it comes to the slave trade, people first think of the evil European colonists who sold black people to American plantations as laborers for profit. Those American slave owners cruelly exploited and abused slaves.

Indeed, this is a historical fact, but it is only a partial fact.

In the slave trade, a heinous and bloody evil profit chain that violates human ethics, which manor owners and slave owners in the Americas are downstream of this profit chain.

European colonists were responsible for buying black slaves, then transporting them to the Americas and delivering them to slave owners, playing an intermediary role in this chain of interests.

So who is playing the role upstream of this interest chain?

That is, who personally captured black people, looted their villages, massacred black people who dared to resist, turned black women and children into slaves, and then sold them to intermediaries such as European colonists?

Isn't this an obvious thing about lice on a bald man's head? Aren't they just slaves that European colonists went to capture.

It is true that some were captured by the European colonists themselves, but only a small part of them. The vast majority of black people who were trafficked were actually bought from others! ! !

The upper reaches of the interest chain, that is, those who personally capture slaves and sell them, are not only the European colonists who play this role.

In the early days of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, some people did catch slaves, but only in small numbers and within a short period of time.

Although the Portuguese are a colonial power, their national strength has never been strong. They mainly rely on trade to make money, unlike the Netherlands, Britain, and France, which are not only trade powers but also industrial powers.

Portugal has never been strong and its population is sparse. Therefore, the Portuguese do not have the ability to personally capture a large number of slaves in Africa.

The Portuguese country was weak, so they preferred to obtain slaves through trade, such as muskets, glass balls or other European goods.

During the main period of the slave trade, European slaves were purchased from Arab or Bantu kingdoms along the coast of Africa, rather than being purchased by Europeans themselves.

Most slave providers have been forgotten by the world!

They are the Arabs.

Until the end of the 19th century, European colonists only set up strongholds on both sides of the African coast or some navigable rivers to facilitate trade.

Their control over Africa is far from as strong as shown by the colonial maps of Africa. Even a large part of the territory is only assigned to a certain country on the map of European politicians, but the suzerain country has always been The Tail may not have actually controlled most of the colony. They only sent officials to manage certain key areas, such as mineral areas and some areas suitable for growing cash crops.

In other words, Europeans did not have the ability to penetrate deep into the interior of Africa and capture black people on a large scale and trade them as slaves.

After all, there are no railways in Africa, and the world has not yet invented airplanes and automobiles, which makes it impossible for Europeans to capture black slaves on a large scale.

In addition, white Europeans are not suitable for the African climate. At that time, there were no specific drugs for many diseases. For example, the invention of artemisinin to treat malaria happened after World War II. Cinchona was previously used to treat malaria. bark, has serious side effects.

Everyone knows that white Europeans, during the heinous era of colonialism, carried out the evil black slave trade, and black Africans were captured in batches all over the world to serve as menial labor.

However, few people have paid attention to the Arabs' long-lasting slave trade history of more than 1,000 years.

And the Arab world in the Middle East has never reflected on its history of slavery.

This is different from European Caucasians.

Until the 21st century, the relationship between black Africa south of the Sahara Desert and white Africa north of the Sahara Desert has not been harmonious.

Because Arab countries are deaf to their history of engaging in large-scale trafficking of black people.

The Arabs in the Middle East were the first race in human history to organize large-scale trafficking of African slaves. Their history of slave trading predates the Western slave trade.

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