SLAVERY DID NOT END IT ONLY CHANGED FORM
SLAVERY DID NOT END IT ONLY CHANGED FORM They did not stop the slave trade because they respected Africa. They did not stop it because they suddenly discovered humanity. They stopped it because their strategy changed. Britain banned the slave trade in 1807, others followed. But let us ask the real question: what came next? ๐ The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. After centuries of draining Africa through slavery, Europe decided it was no longer enough to steal African bodies they now wanted to own African land, control African resources, and rule African people directly. Slavery was becoming inefficient. Colonial occupation was more profitable. So they gathered in Berlin without a single African present and partitioned Africa like a piece of meat. Borders were drawn, nations destroyed, cultures divided, and foreign flags planted on African soil. This is the truth: They stopped the slave trade to begin colonial ownership They replaced chains with colonial laws They...