Top 5 African Countries Where Slavery Is Still Rampant African Kingdoms were established simply to supply Arab Slavers with stock.
The continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since “before historical records”, but intensifying with the Arab slave trade and again with the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the demand for slaves created an entire series of kingdoms (such as the Ashanti Empire) which existed in a state of perpetual warfare in order to generate the prisoners of war necessary for the lucrative export of slaves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I expect some input from Sharpton very soon. Al just rang me up; he said the Ashanti Empire were actually whites in blackface. So now we know,