Imagine how much you could be worth if sold to go work at a sugar plantation across the sea. Maybe just a mirror will be just worth you, or perhaps a ceramic bowl or maybe just an umbrella if lucky enough.
Tragic! - isn't it?
I took a trip to a famous old slave point in NIgeria-Western African, and I was baffled by what I heard and saw.
So it happened that around the 1800s people came from across the Atlantic oceans to come shop for black men to work on their plantation and due to limited education in Nigeria at that time, we fell prey.
It was so bad that blacks were being sold by fellow blacks for mere objects
To cut the story short, these are some European products exchanged for slaves in the 1800**s;
Umbrella- 40 slaves
A bottle of Gin- 10 slaves
Canon Gun(big)- 100 slaves
Canon Gun (small)- 40
Gun- 40 slaves
Ceramic bowl- 10 slaves
Mirror and bead depends on how you bargain(Bargain Power)
kettle and brandy were given to the king as a gift
What do you think is currently being used to buy people?
I have been there before too and I was amazed at what I saw.
Ignorance is terrible.
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Big time ignorance, couldn't the slave masters just pay the supposed slaves instead of taking them through hardship?
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Money I think . Many conscience are sold out because of money, brethren killing each bother for that same reason, money is the majorly is playing a vital role in purchasing human
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Money they say, is the root of all evil
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Thank you
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