During the time of the slave trade between the 15th - 18th century, the enslavers who captured slaves in home raids and sold them off were not the merchant ships from Europe, they were locals who worked for rich and influential people (many of them leaders) in the community.
While the plantation owners in the South of America were the ultimate culprits, there was a value chain of oppressors starting with enslavers to merchant ships to distribution hubs. Granted that the opportunity for profit was there, but if there were no local enslavers, there...
...would not be a slave trade. It is always the tendency of human nature to search for the enemy without. To find someone else to blame for our misfortune. In Africa, what we don't understand, we mystify. So it must be the old witch in the village that is preventing my conception
It must be a demon that's making me sick. It must be the devil that made me steal my employers money. It must be the other tribe that is preventing our progress. Yes there are enemies without. But have you paused to consider the enemy within? Have you paused to ask yourself...
..."What do I need to change that might be contributing to my situation?" Do I need to change my diet or exercise more to be healthy? Do I need to develop myself to attract better job opportunities? Do I need to focus on my local "enslavers" than my outside oppressors?
There are communities in this country that the people impoverishing them are their local communities leaders. The same people who look like them and talk like them but have perfected how to make them unlook their oppression but focus on those who do not look or talk like them.
The enemy within is more dangerous than the enemy without. If you can deal with the enemy within, it is likely that there will be no opportunity for the enemy without to exploit. Problem is, the enemy within knows you; your weakness & beliefs and can read you. It'll take courage.
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