[ladyjane]

the best thing regarding slavery would have been to prevent it from ever having happened in the first place.

How could our young country, with limited assets, send an army over to Africa to keep the tribes from fighting and stop them from imprisoning and selling their brethren to slave traders?

[Architect of Avalon]

Americans should not have gone to Africa and bought slaves.

Africans never should have been brought to America as slaves.