Kunta Kinteh was not a slave, the people that facilitated, enabled or allowed his capture were the slaves, and Bilal Ibn Rabah was not a slave either. Just like many others, they were all victims of extralegal fuckery.
In fact, that social practice of owning human beings as property was not slavery as so named, and that's why there's still slavery even after the 13th Amendment; that's why anyone can be a slave. It doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown, orange or purple, and whether you're from Swaziland or Switzerland.
Slavery is a thing of dignity, will and of course the mind. But that's why according to me, anyone who slavishly surrenders his God-given freewill to someone or something, even against your own sincere but radical beliefs, thoughts and desires, and for whatever reasons, you're a slave. Call it psychological, mental or philosophical, it is still slavery. This definition includes servile flattery, servile obedience, or being a doormat for anything or anyone of renown.
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