In Barry Unsworth's Booker-winning novel Sacred Hunger, a British slave ship anchors off the coast of West Africa & the captain barters with the African slave merchants who did all the reconnoitering, capture, and selling of slaves.
This whole section is historically accurate & not controversial among historians. However, when Hollywood was going to make a film of the book, they said You CANNOT show African slave traders. Period. So the film was never made
In Barry Unsworth's Booker-winning novel Sacred Hunger, a British slave ship anchors off the coast of West Africa & the captain barters with the African slave merchants who did all the reconnoitering, capture, and selling of slaves.
This whole section is historically accurate & not controversial among historians. However, when Hollywood was going to make a film of the book, they said You CANNOT show African slave traders. Period. So the film was never made