Emergency Thought Crime (@Kellyu)

@Heartiste @BGKB @Escoffier @lovelymiss @sdfgefgsdf @NC_Kween @skip420 It appears a nogg slave was better off in America than as a nogg slave to other noggs in Africa. At least the American nogg slave wasn't sacrificed to the gods or buried alive: "Long before Europeans arrived, Igbos enslaved other Igbos as punishment for crimes, for the payment of debts, and as prisoners of war. The practice differed from slavery in the Americas: slaves were permitted to move freely in their communities and to own property, but they were also sometimes sacrificed in religious ceremonies or buried alive with their masters to serve them in the next life. When the transatlantic trade began, in the fifteenth century, the demand for slaves spiked. Igbo traders began kidnapping people from distant villages. Sometimes a family would sell off a disgraced relative, a practice that Ijoma Okoro, a professor of Igbo history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, likens to the shipping of British convicts to the penal colonies in Australia: “People would say, ‘Let them go. I don’t want to see them again.’ ” Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, nearly one and a half million Igbo slaves were sent across the Middle Passage." My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-great-grandfather-the-nigerian-slave-trader