God used the Atlantic slave trade to free some African slaves from another kind of slavery. It nearly equals the Atlantic slave trade in scope but far surpasses its brutality. The North African slaveowners castrated their slaves, which resulted in the deaths of most of their millions of male slaves. In Ghana, where I was born, every person was a slave to sin before the Atlantic slave trade. They sold Africans to make them slaves of white men, but God purchased them with the blood of Jesus to make them slaves of Christ (1 Corinthians 7:22).

Source: The North Africa Journal February 24, 2024 09:34 UTC