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A historical-style illustration showing an African king or nobleman in traditional regal clothing from the 1700s, shaking hands with a European colonial-era trader.

African kingdoms actively captured and sold rival tribes into slavery. The transatlantic slave trade needed suppliers. African rulers were more than willing. Europeans didn’t “kidnap millions” — they bought them from African slavers who ran a booming business.

Lake Cow Bacon Anyone?

Cartoon-style illustration of a confused hippopotamus sweating in a Louisiana swamp, holding a small American flag, surrounded by alligators and palm trees

In the early 1900s, the U.S. faced a meat shortage and invasive plant problems. Congress actually discussed the "American Hippo Bill," proposing to import hippos from Africa to Louisiana's swamps.
The idea was to have hippos eat the invasive water hyacinth and serve as a new meat source dubbed "lake cow bacon.