Quarcoo,

I'm glad that Mudcat provides us with an opportunity to exchange insights and opinions about this very important subject.

Up unto fairly recently, I hadn't considered how Africans who remained in their country thought about the roles of some Africans in 18th and 19th century chattel slavery. I recognize from your comments that this both an intellectual and an emotional issue for you, as it is for me and as it also may be for people of European descent.

I believe that how and why chattel slavery occurred are too important and too complicated to be reduced to one line sound bites. And though I believe that it would be beneficial to receive apologies from all concerned, it is far more important to work to ensure that modern day slavery is ended and something as vile slavery never occurs again.