"White people don't season dey food"

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[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I don't remember sub-saharans sailing to Java or India for exotic flavors, and they're considerably closer.

[–]ShalomEveryone✡️ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why would Africans need to do that if the continent they lived in was already rich in spices?

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[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think sub-Saharan Africa was, and maybe it still isn't.

Otherwise, Roman expeditions in the first century wouldn't have fizzled out, later European traders wouldn't have avoided most of a continent just to get to the spice islands over twice as far away, and ancient Egypt would have ventured farther down their own coast themselves instead of waiting for Indian ships to come in.

It's an interesting question on human action under local constraints, neither of which we can examine directly. Nowadays the topic is deconstructed by ideology, so it's impossible to search the web on it, and recent scholarship is likely trash, but maybe some book written before 1960 addresses it. Would make a good racialist seminar, I think.