She left a cryptic parting message before she died.
Many of these cultures have a delusional belief in their superiority that they project onto 'inferior' cultures. Many times they were struggle dealing with somebody like me.
It did not help that many African tribes freely bartered their people which added fuel to the fire. You can't subjugate any of your people even if you went to war with them. Even though Germany and the U.S. went to war, the POW were never seen as being subjugated to us. They has been some improvement.