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Originally Posted by garinda

By the way, if people do insist on having appologies for the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, perhaps they should be looking to Africa itself, or Arabia, both of which trading in slaves, before the Europeans even got a look in.

It might be worthwhile noting that African slavers raided Europe for slaves and wiped out whole villages long before they traded slaves with Europeans so maybe they should be the ones apologising to us. Their ancestors introduced the idea to our ancestors, as slaves were the commodity they had to offered in trade.

Instead of all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth over something we had no control over in the past it would be more appropriate to do something constructive to abolish slavery in the world today. William Wilberforce must be turning in his grave.