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I suggest you read John G. Jackson's Introduction to African Civilization. The esteemed Historian breaks down the slavery issue completely. He goes back to the Hyksos invasion of Egypt, The Assyrian invasion of Egypt, The conquest of Alexander the Great (homo), The Roman conquest of Carthage, The Roman conquest of Egypt, The Catholic invasion of Egypt and slaughter of Hypatia, The Arab invasion and subsequent creation of the great Islamic Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai, the Spanish and Portuguese invasion of Africa and Middle Passage Slave trade. The great fact that he introduces with thorough documented evidence is slavery is not a product of Africa but was introduced by way Middle Eastern and Eurasia invaders. Slavery is not a part of African philosophy. As I explained the people enslaving and trading Africans were dark skinned product Arab fathers and African slave mothers. These were not true Africans. Europeans learned these tactics as well. Also you must consider that the concept of race was not in effect in those days. African valued tribal ancestral identity. The concept of grouping humans by physical attributes was not yet anything Africans considered as valid. What these pseudo scholars are doing is thinking in terms of race when race didn't exists. We were introduced to the concept of race when Portuguese labeled us as Negroes. They try to do the same thing with the Bible. Race is never mentioned there either.
Do not challenge your professors with this knowledge. Pass it on to brothers and sisters who are confused. Challenging you professor will only cause you to be labeled as a trouble maker or worse a militant. Unfortunately because we don't have our own institutions higher learning we forced to glean knowledge from the next best thing. Consider your class an end to a means. It's more important that you obtain a degree than be right. Besides it's futile trying to correct them. What you must understand is there is politics behind their institutions of learning. Part of that was to wipe out our institutions. This is why the Romans destroyed the Library of Carthage over 2000 years ago. What your professors were speaking of was His Story. We need to be proficient in Our story to know the difference.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check these books out. Oh and it was not my professor but a very...very silly little white girl who said this.