The slave trades begin in Africa

The slave trades begin in Africa , with warring African tribes capturing other tribal people and selling them to slave traders in the African harbors. None of these slave traders were American ships. People of color selling other people of color who eventually ended up in the American colonies. White skinned people from Ireland and Oriental people were also sold as slaves..
Today, Southern history and the symbols of the Southern States are being destroyed and banned by ignorance. They accuse it is not history and heritage, but signs of hate. The South is blamed as the origin of the slave trade and negative treatment of other human beings of color. The Confederate Flag is being accused of being a symbol of hate, and it is being banned from public display. The memorial statues of Confederate Solders, are being destroyed and removed and the graves of Confederate Solders are being desecrated.
Ignorance is a very scary thing. Here are some true facts that any one with an eighth grade education could simple research.
The first African slaves arrived in the American Colonies in 1619. Therefore, in 246 years of slavery in America, the Confederate flag only flew for 4 of those years,. The rest were under the US and the British flag... Think about that when you want to start banning flags. In 1776 there were twice as many slaves in New York as in Georgia.
The Civil War was never about slavery. President Lincoln said this on several occasions himself. Lincoln said the war was the result of taxes . YES MONEY. The tax he was talking about was on cotton. Lincoln wanted to raise tax on export cotton by forty percent. The cotton producing states felt the government was going way to far on taxation so they decided to leave the union. Lincoln wasn't going to allow the secession of the South. The Emancipation Proclamation, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. Fact show that slaves were not free in the north for four years after the south under you guessed it the American flag . Please read a little bit of history, before disrespecting the history and heritage of the south. . Southerner states, who respect their heritage are really getting pissed off again.