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GTB · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: The Slavery Trade

Should this country offer compensation to the nations that we took slaves from over 200 years ago or has too much time elapsed? Should we set a worldwide precedent on this type of action and pay for our past misdemeanours and move on into the future with a clear conscience?

Debate please.................... :wink:

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kathy27 · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject:

Im not going to be very pc on this one, sorry.
No is my answer to this, far too much time has lapsed and as a country we cant afford it...........
However if any of the slaves are still alive they could put in a claim :wink:

Clunk · Ejected Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 935 Status:

I was hoping this thread was about where to buy slaves. Cross

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GTB · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

The comments so far mirror those that appeared on another forum regarding slavery (apart from Clunks! :lol:).

I think that an apology is quite far enough as far as guilt is concerned. The world was a far different place back then and we have all come a long way forward since then.
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Geddi · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

England/Britain led the world in the abolition of slavery and fought it all over the world.

There were millions of black slaves taken from Africa and used by Europeans to create vast amounts of wealth from plantations in the Americas. There were also an estimated 2 million slaves were taken from Western European shores during the dark ages by North African/ Moorish slavers who occasionally took entire villages from Western Ireland and such remote locations all around Europe.

What was then was then. Draw a line and move along now. Learn from the past and move on.

There are, in some lights, more than one type of slavery going on today: -

1) Within the sex industry and fed mainly with Eastern European girls.
2)Debt! How many of us are enslaved to the APR we pay daily from our wages?
3)Sweat shop labour.
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GTB · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

Totally agree with you there, Geddi. People forget that slavery wasn't just restricted to the coloured races.
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Chepfer · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

If slavery had never happened, where would the next of kin be now ..... Africa.

Yes it was in many cases a bad thing to have happened but alot of good has come from it too ...... Would Obama be where he is now, if it was not for slavery ?

I mean this from a pure talking point and not from any right or wrong point of view ........ just makes you think !.

Block67 · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

:? :x

aaaaargh!, no, this can't be! I actually agree with...

......Geddi! :shock: ........

.... :lol:

No, it's way too late to offer compensation, they're all dead now. :lol:

Nope, this country throws enough of its money away on silliness, about time it stopped.

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2845 Status:

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