There are many angles to this story, but some should not remain ignored: the story of centuries long slave trade -- note, the slave trade was fully established

There are many angles to this story, but some should not remain ignored: the story of centuries long slave trade -- note, the slave trade was fully established much before the Western nations used "the fruits" of it: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/fall-kano https://www.historytoday.com/archive/fall-kano and the changes in Britain helped changing that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807 From a book by Gene W Heck "Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism": "For the medieval Muslim world was, to a large extent, a civilization powered by involuntary servitude. Its manual labor force and, even at times, significant parts of its military, consisted predominantly of slaves. Nonetheless, there were, by doctrinal definition, no slaves indigenous within the Dar al-Islam ~ as after the initial Arab conquests, its empire became comprised of Muslims and tax-paying non-Muslims (dhimmis), classes of citizens who could not legally be reduced to slavery. ‘Therefore, an vibrant external slave traffic was vital to provide the energy required for the successful functioning of Islamic industry.”" (Gene W Heck PhD: residing in Middle East, a senior business development economist operating in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East and adjunct professor of government and history with the University of Maryland.) https://medinapublishing.com/book-author/gene-w-heck-phd/ https://medinapublishing.com/book-author/gene-w-heck-phd/ Also note the size of one specific market: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-res... "Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas." Many people who try to "explain" what happened before bend over backwards to avoid considering some of such facts which were some of the main drivers of what was happening in the world for centuries (and I include there the author of the original article -- the "censored" history is simply not something worth analyzing).