Who Should Be Blamed For Slavery?

Who should be blamed for slavery?:

1. The white man who came and bought black people 

OR

2. The Africans who sold their brothers and sisters?


Another Question:

3. Why didn't Hausas sell their own brothers and sisters into slavery?.   I have not heard of any hausa slave port anywhere in Africa or Americas ?:  There are Yoruba slaves in Brazil, Jamaica etc and majority of African Americans and black canadians today descended from the igbo and Ijaw ethnic groups. But there are no known Hausa slave territories. Even their brothers in Chad and Niger were not captured/sold.

Could it be because Hausas live far into the mainland or they were just as strong as Swazi people who resisted imperial rule and fought it with their last breathe.

There was slavery in the North, only that Fulani and Hausa people do not sell their own. They capture other tribe particularly the North central states. Moreover, after the establishment of Islamic system, their attention is focus towards

My Great grand father told me they used to own slave untill the British came in early 1900s. However, from what I understand, there is still some form of silent slavery that goes on in the Northern part of the country. Particularly with the emir because some still have concubines, (some still maintain upto 9 wives, while the Islam restricts them to 4)

 There was book I read in about Slavery in the North, if you live in Britain you can get it from British Library.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521374693

However, there are some accounts in the book that tends to show bias (Typical of English writers). When I was old enough to understand some of these things, during my national service(NYSC) in Nigeria, I tried to get as much information as possible.

There is also a Library in Sokoto: Waziri Junaidu Library, it contains ancient history of the North and the Sokoto caliphitate with documented evidences and diaries, some dating more than 500 years. Though most of them are writen in Hausa or fulani language with arabic scripts like the ones on Nigerian currency. 

There was slavery long before there were countries.The whites in northern Europe had slaves of other whites and the Blacks of southern Africa had slaves of other Blacks.  The Red man of America had other Red men as slaves and Asians had slaves of other Asians.  Why do you need to find someone to blame?  It won't make your life any better.

It always easy to blame your problems on someone else or some past wrong.  Maybe it's time to stand up and take responsibility for your own future.