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The Taking: The Slatee & Africa Before Pan-Africanism
Last episode named the white men who chose. This one names the men in the middle: the African merchants, kings, and brokers who sold captives to the ships — and why they chose to. Mr. Black History opens with the Scottish traveler Mungo Park, who walked out of Africa's interior alive in 1797 beside a slatee's coffle, then walks the supply chain link by link: the four roads into captivity, the gun-slave trap (twenty million European guns, traded straight across for people — Warren Whatley's count), and the kingdom that ran it as state policy — Dahomey. King Agaja's 1724–1727 conquests, the…
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