[JorgeGT]

Is this not taught in school in the US? My country (Spain) profited by the slave trade as well, and the general process of how slaves were brought to our colonies was taught. The man of the article was from (or close?) Dahomey, whose Kings became fabulously rich by selling slaves to the westerners [1]:

King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. King Gezo said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade:

"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…"

Other African Kings were making bank as well. After the British made slave trade illegal in 1807, a distraught King of Bonny complained [1]:

"We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself."

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[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafr...