Slavery

Slipper One said:
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.
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Two NEGROES? You're a fucking clown pal, and the people that have liked your dumb post should be ashamed. You've no idea what you're talking about.
 
shevtheblue said:
Two NEGROES? You're a fucking clown pal, and the people that have liked your dumb post should be ashamed. You've no idea what you're talking about.
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I liked his post because if you read it properly he points out the pathetic futility of blowing money investigating something what happened in the 17th and 18th century which King Charles or no one else alive in this country bears any responsibility for. We can find a far better way to use money today, as for the term he uses not something I’d use but he did point out it was a quote from a 19th century newspaper report. If that offends you maybe he could modify his post.
 
Some really enlightening comments in this thread which shows the failure of our education system when it comes to the slave trade.

I found the comparison to the Holocaust quite apt as both constitute two of the most abhorrent episodes in human history. The interesting thing is how from a British perspective we fought against the Nazis and have an education system which outlines their atrocities.

Yet, the reverse is true when it comes to the slave trade. I know in a lot of schools more time is given to Britain’s role in the abolition of slavery than it is to its actual role in it. Likewise, the British Empire is often seen as the high point of British success, ignoring the role slavery and colonialism played in it.

Anything which allows us to learn more about Britain’s role in slavery is surely a good thing.
 
i kne albert davy said:
I liked his post because if you read it properly he points out the pathetic futility of blowing money investigating something what happened in the 17th and 18th century which King Charles or no one else alive in this country bears any responsibility for. We can find a far better way to use money today, as for the term he uses not something I’d use but he did point out it was a quote from a 19th century newspaper report. If that offends you maybe he could modify his post.
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I liked that post for exactly the same reasons as you did pal. I'm glad you replied first to save me the trouble of replying to the other guys post.
 
i kne albert davy said:
I liked his post because if you read it properly he points out the pathetic futility of blowing money investigating something what happened in the 17th and 18th century which King Charles or no one else alive in this country bears any responsibility for. We can find a far better way to use money today, as for the term he uses not something I’d use but he did point out it was a quote from a 19th century newspaper report. If that offends you maybe he could modify his post.
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Except it clearly wasn’t a quote. If he chose to lift that one word and that one word only from an old newspaper, and slip it in amongst his own words without any indication it’s a quote, then I think the chances are it’s a word he has no problem using himself. American I assume?
 
Stephen230 said:
Except it clearly wasn’t a quote. If he chose to lift that one word and that one word only from an old newspaper, and slip it in amongst his own words without any indication it’s a quote, then I think the chances are it’s a word he has no problem using himself. American I assume?
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I've no idea whether he's American or not but he does say it was lifted from a newspaper or article and i'll take what he says as true without proof otherwise, in context of what he was relating to that's probably the bit in there that may have been relevant to what he was trying to get across that in no way can us alive today be anyway responsible for the sins of our long dead ancestors. Maybe you're right in unfortunate choice of wording but probably not in the unlightened 1800s.
 
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