odumchi:

Slave trading was not morally a wrong thing to do at that time. It's not as if the Aro sold Ngwa slaves out of hatred for the Ngwa. Slave trading is slave trading despite the parties involved. The main reason Aros sold people was because they were not diplomatically aligned with them. So, by this I mean that diplomatic relations between the Ngwa and the Aro were not at strong in the first place. Had the two been friendlier from the start, the map of Nigeria would have looked different, or atleast there would have been a different story behind the colonization of the Igbos. Digressingly, if you noticed, the Aro didn't bother their allies in places like Afikpo, Ohafia, and etc.

I do understand what your saying. I just wanted to clarify that "slave trading" wasn't as looked down upon as it is seems, especially when it was a lucrative business.

There where times when diplomatic reletionship between ngwa and aros where strong it was withing this period that aro use ngwa land for there trade rout to the riverian area e.g present day rivers state and aros where also giving a place stay wthing ngwa land .e.g for trading inwhich some aros who live wthing the place given to them by ngwas where assemiliated into ngwa family unit,cultuer and tradition and they are know today as aro ngwa's.But in some years later the diplomatic reletion break down becuse by this time ngwa people where against slave trading then you shold know what it means to be at the opposing side aros will declar you there enemy this led hostality between ngwa and aros, you shold know that all this happen before the colonization of ala igbo.