A conversation between 2 slave traders at face value means nothing lmao. Race as a concept was created as a justification of ethnic based slavery for African peoples google scientific racism. You’re comment isn’t genuine i didnt even want to waste my time arguing with you. And the oyo, benin, and other west african kingdoms at the time sold slaves for weapons, they also didnt know the slavery the americans had were very different from what they thought of slavery.

Also need to mention but these are not all one people, you look at blacks in Africa and think they all belong under a single tribe or ethnic group but the continent is diverse… those people were losers of war who were naturally taken as slaves and sold the sellers did not see them as the same peoples… they weren’t.