There will also be descendants of the slave owner who inherited little or nothing, and now live ordinary lives, and descendants of the slave, who prospered, and the longer the period of time, the mor… (View Post)

I think there is truth to the argument that the profits from slavery provided some of the capital that drove industrialisation. But, it's not, by any means, the whole of the story. And, in the l… (View Post)

West Africans and Europeans who drove the trade were equally evil. (View Post)

No one has seriously attacked or defended Gibbon for decades, because it's generally accepted that, great writer though he was, most of his judgements were wrong. I won't deny that I find q… (View Post)

Germany lost totally. That's why they paid reparations, (something that many Jews violently opposed at the time), and lost lands in the East. If people want reparations for wrongs long past, the… (View Post)