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Slavery existed in African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as [Basil] Davidson points out, the ‘slaves’ of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe— in other words, like most of the population of Europe. It was a harsh servitude, but they had rights which slaves brought to America did not have, and they were ‘altogether different from the human cattle of the slave ships and the American plantations.’ In the Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa, one observer noted that ‘a slave might marry; own property; himself own a slave; swear an oath; be a competent witness and ultimately become heir to his master… an Ashanti slave, nine times out of ten, possibly became an adopted member of the family, and in time his descendants so merged and intermarried with the owner’s kinsmen that only a fee would know their origin.
— Howard Zinn— A People’s History of the United States (via iridessence)
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