[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.

[Oratam]

...the virtual absence of at least two elephants in the living room that apparently STILL must never be mentioned.

Well, it was a work of fiction.

[WildHighlander57]

Are those two “elephants” the Africans raiding African villages and selling people, and the indentured servitude done by the English to the Scots and Irish (plus other English)?