Most of these black Americans are descendants of black slaves who were sold to the United States in triangle trade, and their ancestors were treated unfairly. You see, slaves are tools of speech and can be treated much better.
Although Lincoln later liberated the slaves and Martin Luther King launched the civil rights movement, which gradually made the status of blacks and whites equal, this concept of inequality still exists.
But you only know one thing, and you don't know the other. In history, white people who used to be high above others also had the painful experience of being slaves, and their status was even lower than that of black slaves.
What's going on here? Don't worry, everyone. Listen to me and talk to you.
Slavery has existed since ancient times, and the productivity of ancient society was low, which made it impossible to feed more people, because all the people captured by tribal wars became food. But with the development of productive forces, people have become more important resources. Why? Because more labor means more people are working, so the fruits of labor are more, so at this time, slaves are necessary.
16-17th century, the Black Death occurred in Europe, and it spread rapidly, resulting in a large decrease in the population of Europe, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire suffered greatly. A large number of laborers died, resulting in the loss of people who cultivated and worked. At this time, King Salim I couldn't sit still, so he thought about how to get some people.
The simplest and most direct way is to rob the white, but you can't rob it openly. Isn't that asking for trouble? So he secretly supported the Moors in North Africa, and the Moors became Barbary pirates and began to rob people in European countries. We know that Europe is all white, right? That's why buying and selling stolen white people led to the white slave trade.
Barbary pirates target towns and villages along the European continent. Pirates are generally elusive, so it's really hard to catch. European countries are also hard to prevent and have a headache. At the peak of these pirates, even all the way up to Iceland, the Netherlands and other countries in northern Europe, even the British empire was at a loss.
Their abductees sometimes wake up and find themselves tied up and become? Commodities? Then these pirates, in turn, sold these people to the Ottoman Empire and Arabs who lacked labor and were sold to North Africa.
Such piracy has been going on for nearly 300 years.