Re:"Sale of slaves was unders the control of African states and elites"

["Ricardo Duchesne" <rduchesn@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> So, what does "everyone else" on this list think about John
> Thornton's work or Africans' participation in the slave trade in the
> capacity other than being the enslaved?

His point was exactly the opposite: in their capacity as controllers
of the slave trade, and he was quite clear that it was the African
*state* and the *elites*, not the African people as an ethnic group
or a culture. But I really have no interest pursuing this anymore.