Mad Fiddler: It really is breathtaking to consider the sort of mind that can claim in one breath that Africa is the source of nobility, advanced culture, and shrewd self-government, then turn around and assert that tens of millions of blacks were enslaved by raiding parties of a handful of White Europeans roaming through the interior over the course of a few centuries.

This is sort of like blaming the poppy growers in Afghanistan for the heroin problem, when you’ve got junkies and dealers all over the West creating a demand for the drug. Sure, the slaves were rounded up by their own kinsmen, but it was the cotton growers in the South who created the demand for them.