In fact, it was because they came from a settled culture, of tribal customs and family ties, of communal life and traditional ritual, that African blacks found themselves especially helpless when removed from this. They were captured in the interior {frequently by blacks caught up in the slave trade themselves}, sold on the coast, then shoved into pens with blacks of other tribes, often speaking different languages. The
( Howard Zinn )
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