There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. (Henry Louis Gates)

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Henry Louis Gates

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