Slavery and reparations
By simonwallace
@simonwallace (7)
March 23, 2007 2:13pm CST
Should the British government pay reparations for the slave trade? As the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire closes in this is a question many people are asking...
1 response
@smacksman (6053)
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23 Mar 07
Certainly not.
It was a perfectly normal trade in those days carried out by the whole world. If the slaves managed to survive the sea passage they probably lived a longer and healthier life than pestilential Africa!
The whole collection side of the slave trade was carried out by one African tribe against another and losses were huge between the collection point and the distribution port.
The same trade is carried on to this day in Africa. I would have thought our efforts would be better spent stopping that trade today rather than banging on about something that stopped 200 years ago.
