Woodcut of a slave caravan in the Congo from 1888.
Woodcut of a slave caravan in the Congo from 1888.
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White people commonly respond to demands for reparations for slavery and slave trading by pointing out that it was whites who abolished these things.[1] I don’t know whether they notice that this doesn’t get them the credit from their antagonists that they seem to expect; they certainly don’t appear to see why this is. (more…)