. The responsibility they had toward their people was corrupted and now they were only interested in money. The manner in which the conducted their raids were particularly deplorable. William Gray was horrified by the cruelty shown on the "grand pillage" when 'one young woman who had become a mother two days before she was taken, and whose child, being thought by her captor to young to be worth saving, was thrown by the monster into the burning hut from which the flames had just obliged the mother to retreat." The brutish nature of the chiefs was driven by an unquenchable thirst for money and luxury. They would ensure that they had a constant supply of slaves by falsely accusing many that they were "witches". When the time came that they needed more, they would call up their medicine men to seek out these so called witches, and who just happened to be the most able bodied of the villagers. The African traders were never short of excuses as to why to sell someone away.
             There is a common belief amongst people that all was good and peaceful in Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. However this theory called "Merrie Africa&
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