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Probably fairly close. The slave ships were wind-driven, and traveled to ports in latitudes where hurricanes often strike, so the ships and hurricanes would be propelled by the same winds. But some of the slavers came from farther south (e.g. off of present-day Ghana), so they would have had to travel north somewhere. Scrutinizing the logbooks of such ships could give interesting information.
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The answer is no. Many tropical waves or tropical depressions begin off the west coast of Africa and strengthen as they move to the west. Other tropical waves or depressions turn into hurricanes after they have reached the Carribean and I think occasionally there are hurricanes that actually begin life in the Gulf of Mexico.
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No. African slaves started out as captives of African or Arabian slave traders. Often African tribal leaders traded their own people to slavers for profit, and even raised members of the tribes for that reason.
African slaves were than traded or sold to British or Yankee slavers. Contrary to mythical rumors it was Yankee and British seamen and investors of both who traded in slaves not Southerners. African slaves were carried across the seas/oceans by these ships and sold to the highest bidders in not only the Southern states but northern as well, in British colonies, and islands. Often the slaves were owned by churches who awarded their missionaries (big shots, not the small time hard workers)land and slaves for their work in conversion or death among the occupied lands. At one time me the Catholic church occupied more land and people than did the United States out side it's borders. Hawaiians were routinely given to missionaries as free labor along with huge tracts of land for their contribution to the church. But anyway the African slaves traveled the trade routes established by Yankee clippers and British ships. Hurricanes don't travel a route as a result of design, or profit, but follow weather pattern and conditions, ocean/air temperatures, and are steered by high altitude winds. Even the moon and sun has soem effect on developing hurricanes. |
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Using the argument that Africans "sold their own people" into slavery is standard canard for white people when they are faced with looking at a history that shows not superiority but the barbarism of their people.
Again, slavery was not new to Africa, but it had existed primarily in its domestic form-involving rights as well as duties. Thus, slaves in African societies were NOT dehumanized. For example, in his book Nigeria, Walter Schwarz asserts that kings in Bornu, "sent slaves to govern their provinces and Hausa kings also often ruled their empires through their slaves. In Yorubaland, slaves of the ALAFIN often attain great power. It was the Europeans who turned slavery into an industry and introduced such well-documented barbarities as the rigors of the 'middle passage' (across the Atlantic)." Therefore, one can understand that African traders lacking contact with American slavery expect to assume that the lives of slaves overseas would be as they were in Africa. Initially, they had no way of knowing that whites in America associated dark skin with sub-human qualities and status, or that they would treat slaves as chattels generation after generation. Interestingly enough there is evidence that when African slave traders discovered the difference between domestic slavery and American slavery they became abolitionists. Take the example of Nigeria's Madame Tinubu. " Herself a slave-trader, discovered the difference between domestic and non-African slavery, and became an abolitionist, actively rejecting what she saw as the corruption of African slavery by the unjust and inhumane habits of its foreign practitioners and by the motivation to make war for profit on the sale of captives." |
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