[Oratam]

She admitted it was true that the African tribes would raid each other’s villages and take captives to sell for trinkets to those European ship captains....

You mean it wasn't like I saw in the tv movieRoots--middle aged white men (in tricorn hats, no less) with nets going into the jungle to catch an African warrior?

[niteowl77]

You mean it wasn't like I saw in the tv movie Roots--middle aged white men (in tricorn hats, no less) with nets going into the jungle to catch an African warrior?

Ya gotta watch out for middle-aged white guys in tricorn hats. They invented evil and made a monopoly of it, ya know.

When Roots aired in 1977, our family was still addicted to the tube and we watched the hyped-to-the-hilt thing. Dad was a history teacher, and he was none too happy about the virtual absence of at least two elephants in the living room that apparently STILL must never be mentioned.