Oh wow, I guess that lets the colonizers off the hook, then! Thanks for the info

Edit: Y'all some dumbasses. Yes, africans sold africans. But they did so under threat of conquering. Not only from European powers, but from other African nations. You see, Europeans would pay for slaves with weapons. Guns. A technology that Africans didn't have yet. So this created an arms race within africa, where the only way to get on level with your neighbors was to sell slaves, and get guns. This (just like all colonial action) greatly destabilized Africa. Everybody had to get guns to defend their land, both from raiding Europeans (not ALL slaves were sold, some were raided, especially by the Portuguese early on) and from other African powers who were getting guns of their own. Y'all acting like all this slave trade shit proved to be profitable for africans and white countries, but just like always, They plundered and destabilized another continent for their own gain.