AS A YOUNG STUDENT I LEARNED ABOUT SLAVERY. NATURALLY THAT INFORMATION KINDLED RESENTMENT TOWARD THE WHITE PEOPLE. IN COLLEGE I LEARNED MORE ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE. I LEARNED THAT IT WAS A BUSINESS, THAT TWO (OR MORE) PARTIES HAD TO COOPERATE IN ORDER TO CONDUCT BUSINESS. THINK ABOUT IT.... THE SLAVE TRADE THRIVED FOR 300 YEARS. IF THE SLAVE TRADERS HAD TO FIGHT A WAR EVERY TIME THEY SHOWED UP, THE BUSINESS WOULD HAVE DRIED UP IN A DECADE OR TWO; OR THE SLAVE TRADERS WOULD HAVE KILLED OFF ALL OF THE "STOCK".... THE SLAVE TRADERS DID NOT FIGHT THEIR WAY INTO THE INTERIOR AND SNATCH THE BLACKS FROM THEIR BEDS AS THEY SLEPT. THE BLACKS THAT THEY TOOK BACK TO EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS' WERE TRADED OR SOLD TO THEM FOR GOLD, SILVER OR OTHER GOODS. THERE WERE AND ARE MANY TRIBES IN AFRICA. NATURALLY THE TRIBES WOULD AND WILL COMPETE AND FIGHT OVER WATER, LAND, RESOURCES, HUNTING GROUNDS, ETC. WHEN ONE TRIBE WAS VICTORIOUS, THAT TRIBE TOOK THE LOSERS AS SLAVES.......