The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy ~ A book review: Chapter 2

"The transatlantic slave trade was introduced by the coming of the Europeans who came with the Bible in the same manner that Arab raiders and traders from the Middle East and North Africa introduced Islam through the Trans-Saharan slave trade..."

Admittingly, I was a little surprised that the author(s) would acknowledge that slavery existed before the transatlantic slave trade. The real question here is, do they acknowledge that slavery has existed since the dawn of humanity across all of humanity, or is the rest of this book going to be FBA ancestors only.

"The five major countries that dominated slavey and the slave trade in the New World were either Catholic, or still retrained strong Catholic influences including: Spain, Portugal, France, England, and the Netherlands."

So, two out of three of the five would be categorized as "white." Yet "whites" are the poster children of black Americans as 'evil devils' that cause their failures in life, not their own personal decisions. Personal responsibility and accountability, what's that? Asks the FBA.

This chapter was just a bitch fest on the church that really has no relevance to present day gripes by so-called FBAs.