[Steel Wolf]

So, if people in Africa wanted to buy Americans, by your logic it would be okay for me to round up some neighbors, drive them to the coast, and sell them off? If no one wanted to buy Americans, then I wouldn't sell, would I?

They were greedy, just like we were, and sold their fellow man out. No one put a gun to their heads and said, 'Go hunt us some slaves', they did it for profit. No one put a gun to our heads and made us buy them, either. It was also done for profit. I fail to see how we as the former buyers are more culpable than they as the former sellers.

Also, if you buy two slaves and set them free, you're increasing the demand for slaves. More will be rounded up and sold since the merchandise is moving, so you would not in fact be reducing slavery, but fueling it.

[cyborg]

So, if people in Africa wanted to buy Americans, by your logic it would be okay for me to round up some neighbors, drive them to the coast, and sell them off? If no one wanted to buy Americans, then I wouldn't sell, would I?

*My sister is moving to Japan for a year. She already got a warning about turning her passport over to people. This may sound hard to believe, but there are Americans selling other Americans to the international sex trade.

They were greedy, just like we were, and sold their fellow man out. No one put a gun to their heads and said, 'Go hunt us some slaves', they did it for profit. No one put a gun to our heads and made us buy them, either. It was also done for profit. I fail to see how we as the former buyers are more culpable than they as the former sellers.

* I understand your point. You are right in that respect. It was all greed. I was not saying that the buyers are more culpable than sellers though.

Also, if you buy two slaves and set them free, you're increasing the demand for slaves. More will be rounded up and sold since the merchandise is moving, so you would not in fact be reducing slavery, but fueling it.

* If I saw two people suffering and being whipped and raped,etc. I would have found it hard not to. You are right but you know how people are. Same thing can be applied here. Would slavery in the South have been different if so many slaves weren't running away to the North, West and to indian terrority? Who knows?

BTW, what good is apologizing for slavery going to do now? It's two hundred plus years after the fact.