It does not entirely excuse the African rulers who helped the Europeans...

It does not entirely excuse the African rulers who helped the Europeans, but it explains how in the end they were not so much the partners of the Europeans but rather their servants or lackeys. ” [^5] And what was the church doing all that time? Hear the same author commenting: **“**Because there was so much profit to be made by taking slaves from Africa, Europeans refused to listen to their consciences.

They knew about the suffering that was inflicted upon people in Africa, on the slave-ships and on the slave-plantations of the Americas, and they were aware that to sell their fellow human beings could not be morally justified. Yet the Christian church came forward with excuses for the slave-trade. Many priests themselves carried on…