Originally Posted by rogueteens

The Africans were doing very well out of slavery well before the Europeans arrived - and as you know, but I'm sure you chose to ignore, did very well out of selling their countrymen.

Ruin every chance of progress? Like they did before the white man arrived? Have a little chuckle to yourself and see, for example, how late they were at discovering the very basics like mixing metals compared to every other civilisation on earth. If the Europeans hadn't arrived, the sub-Saharan Africans would still be hundreds of years away from their equivalent of the dark ages and a thousand years from an industrial revolution.