Completed in 2026..........what a waste of money.
They're studying a relationship from history when attitudes and way of life were very different to today. Many things, and not just slavery, were wrong by today's standards.
You can't erase history, although many appear to be trying hard to do so.
Instead of trying to remove it, we should be exposing all areas of it and learning from what was done, not running around blaming and apologizing for it.
Commercial slavery has gone on as far back in history as you want to go, why the emphasis on 'black slavery' from years ago............shouldn't the emphasis be on tackling the slavery and human trafficking going on in todays world, or doesn't that fit nicely into a political/social agenda.
I don't understand all this apologizing for things done generations before us. By todays standards, it's rightly abhorrent, but not back then. Am I to expect an apology from Italy because the jolly ol' Romans took some of my ancestors as slaves? How far do we go back, only as far as Africans?
Commercial slavery has been a business throughout the world, throughout time.
The focus should be on today's slavery, because that we can do something about, we can't when it was committed 200 years ago!!
We shouldn't be accountable for what past generations did.
A relative of mine emigrated over to the US in the 1800's. He was shot dead, his money stolen and he and his store doused with kerosene and set alight.
Two negroes were responsible. Am I to expect an apology from their families for what these two people did?
I find it hard to understand how they could be responsible in any way for something that was done by people they didn't know, in a different era of time.
