Africans were making raids into Europe to capture slaves to be brought back to Africa. It was very common for ships to raid a village in England and take all its people as slaves to Africa. How about Africans paying reparations to Europe?

400 years ago, when people were taken from villages all along the south coast of Britain - to be sold into slavery.

Coastal communities like Salcombe lived in fear of the Barbary pirates - with good reason. In 1631, almost the whole of the village of Baltimore in Ireland was captured and shipped off to Africa and sold into slavery. http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/article/2007/07/ds_whiteslaves.shtml