Many folks are concerned about slavery today. See
http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/society.htm and
http://www.antislavery.org/. 

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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa

In Henry's attempt to shift focus away from Africans' responsibility for
maiming, killing, capturing and enslaving their own people for sale to
the world, his analogy and logic fall short -- and he doesn't offer help
with names that was my pursuit.  Weapons of all sorts that were useful
for hunting, fishing and cleaning game were also substitutes for maiming
and killing people since time's beginning, by those who would find any
means for that result, initially their bare hands, blunt objects, sharp
rocks or sticks, then malleable metals, (all of these still used) etc.
etc.  I simply wish to see one African slave-trader's name emblazoned on
the shore of the Potomac for all people to remember the representative
great evil.  It is 'not' my intent to belittle subsequent evils within
countries where slaves were taken, the vastly greater numbers being to
other than British colonial America and its subsequent United States
where slavery finally was ended with great loss of military lives.

......and slavery still continues 'today' in some parts of the world,
where are our concerns expressed toward this additional matter?

Neil McDonald

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From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>

....Instead of focusing our judicial fury on murderers, the "secondary
few" who pull the trigger, we should hunt down the gun manufacturers,
those who are "primarily responsible for the endless supply"
of guns in our country and "share accountabilities" for gun violence. I
think that's where we end up with this line of reasoning.

Henry Wiencek

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