Reply to: Blair 'sorrow' over slave trade

[DodgyAgent]

I am a slave trader and have absolutely no intention of apologising for it.
Get on with some work you lot!

[Lucy]

Speaking of which, do you think Cherie has tried to eat Tony? Bit like chucking a sausage down an alley I'd have thought.

[Ardesco]

You never know, he may be hung like a stallion hence the awful grimace to fit it all in.

I somehow doubt it though.......

[wendigo100]

All depends how rough you like it i guess....

Speaking of which, do you think Cherie has tried to eat Tony? Bit like chucking a sausage down an alley I'd have thought.

[Ardesco]

All depends how rough you like it i guess....

[BoredBloke]

" Someone tried to eat me once. It wasn't that bad!"

Had she put her teeth in it might have been different!

[SallyAnne]

Someone tried to eat me once. It wasn't that bad!

[Troll]

Do you expect they will settle for '40 acres & a mule' ?

[wendigo100]

Cannibalism is quite interesting if repulsive, I hadn't realised it was so widespread so recently.[/url]

Someone tried to eat me once. It wasn't that bad!

[vetran]

Money & Votes

Maybe our compensation seeking friend should use her mouth to sort out modern slavery :

http://www.economist.com/research/ba....cfm?bg=975188

http://www.economist.com/research/ba....cfm?bg=975188

And B'Liar stop fishing for votes over a tragedy, something he has form for - Various royal funerals, terrorist atrocities, NHS etc.

Personally I feel no guilt, just sorrow at the facts surrounding Slavery and the depravity of using it as a meal ticket.

Cannibalism is quite interesting if repulsive, I hadn't realised it was so widespread so recently.

Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Typically, this is apparently done in desperation, as during peacetime cannibalism is much less frequent. Even so, it is sometimes directed at certain groups believed to be relatively helpless, such as Congo Pygmies. It is also reported by some that African traditional healers sometimes use the body parts of children in their medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism

[hattra]

Didn't know that...were they grateful to us for doing this? or should we be expecting another compensation claim?

There must be a compensation angle somewhere - how about "wages are lower in the Caribbean. We were not made aware of this fact when you evacuated us, so we did not give informed consent. Ergo, you owe us compensation for several hundred years of lower pay, plus interest"

[Troll]

As a comparison, the British evacuated > 100,000 slaves (as free men) from the States after the American War of Independance. Most went to the West Indies (along with a group of American Indians, who ended up in Bermuda for some reason).

Didn't know that...were they grateful to us for doing this? or should we be expecting another compensation claim?

[hattra]

Wasn't it Liberia that came into being as a nation for slaves to be returned to after the American civil war?

I think several thousand went back initially, and about 300 survived the first 2 years. It wasn't a great success - they never had the resources to start from scratch

As a comparison, the British evacuated > 100,000 slaves (as free men) from the States after the American War of Independance. Most went to the West Indies (along with a group of American Indians, who ended up in Bermuda for some reason).

[Troll]

Wasn't it Liberia that came into being as a nation for slaves to be returned to after the American civil war?

[hattra]

Has anyone heard if the Nigerian, Ghanaian and other Slave Coast countries are going to apologise and stump up compensation as well?

I remember when the publicity for Mahommed Ali's "rumble in the jungle" used the publicity slogan "out of slavery to freedom" and had to withdraw it rapidly in Africa - it hadn't even occurred to them that the remaining black population of Africa were the ones who had sold the slaves in the first place. If there's one thing worse than being a slaver, it's enslaving and selling your own kinsmen!

As for the "abolition of the slave trade", it was only abolished within the British sphere of influence - due to the fact that we didn't really have the sea-power to police the entire planet. Portugal, for instance, continued slaving from the Congo and further South across to South America. And of course slavery existed for some time afterwards. It was still common in Nigeria, for instance through into the 1960's (and is still quite common in parts of the Middle East and Asia).

All our fault I suppose