Of course. I mean who were slaves? losers. captives in dirty little tribal wars. Sold on for blankets and beads and transported to a country, where if they survived, they had every chance of ending up President, after enough interbreeding anyway.
Black Americans are not the same as black Africans.
Not quite so easy. Yes, slavery had a very old tradition there. But it was neither heriditary nor even long term. Slaves gradually grew into citzenship over years or at least decades. Outsiders, whom slaves were sold to, misunderstood, unknowingly or on pupose, what the transaction was supposed to entail.
Of course under commercial and military pressure the old values deteriorated even there.
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