See the headline "Search Underway For Suspected African Child Slave Ship" at www.npr.org for a look at contemporary African slave issues.  


Teresa Yeary, Ph.D., SV(ASCP)
[descendent of both a 'white slave' and of slave owners]

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Yes, and some even owned slaves as did a few blacks in Fredericksburg did, but we seem to over look that fact. Slavery was a way of life in Africa. Some
of the African slaves sold to trader before the 1800s were sold by black
Africans to European traders. After the British stopped their slave trade
they enforced a "no slave trade " policy off the coast of Africa...making it
harder for Africans to sell slaves to Europeans. Owning slaves seem to be an
accepted act world wide. While by our standards of today we would be
horrified. The period of Jefferson was the start of a transition period in
the concept of owning another human. Within a few years the British outlawed
slave trade, yet the Spanish kept slaves until the mid 1800, Brazil had
slaves until the late 1800s. We can always "Monday morning quarterback."
Judging by today standards will often create interpretation of history that
will only be discarded when someone else applies they standards.

Wm Buser
Fredericksburg Va.

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