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Title: African slavery apology 'needed'
Source: BBC
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8356357.stm
Published: Nov 13, 2009
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2009-11-13 12:11:02 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 333
Comments: 20

Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs.

"We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless," said the Civil Rights Congress.

The letter said some collaborated or actively sold off their subjects.

The group said it was time for African leaders to copy the US and the UK who have already said they were sorry.

It urged Nigeria's traditional rulers to apologise on behalf of their forefathers and "put a final seal to the history of slave trade", AFP news agency reports.

Civil Rights Congress president Shehu Sani says they are calling for this apology because traditional rulers are seeking inclusion in the forthcoming constitutional amendment in Nigeria.

"We felt that for them to have the moral standing to be part of our constitutional arrangement there are some historical issues for them to address," he told the BBC World Service.

"One part of which is the involvement of their institutions in the slave trade."

He said that on behalf of the buyers of slaves, the ancestors of these traditional rulers "raided communities and kidnapped people, shipping them away across the Sahara or across the Atlantic".

Millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas over a period of about 450 years from the middle of the 15th Century.

More than a million people are thought to have died while in transit across the so-called "middle passage" of the Atlantic, due to the inhuman conditions aboard the slave ships and brutal suppression of any resistance.

Many slaves captured from the African interior died on the long journey to the coast.


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Between this and the Holohaux, I now know what The White Man's Burden truly is.

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Wealthy Jewish merchants played a central role in the slave trade to the America's, should an apology be demanded of the World Jewish Congress?

X-15  posted on  2009-11-13   12:12:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: X-15 (#1)

What about the slavery going on today?

Yes, it is mostly underground, but it exists today and is much bigger than most people realize.

Not to mention the indirect slavery of most people today to corporations and governments world wide through taxation and laws.

It is kind of hard to apologize for slavery when you are a slave. What your ancestors did no one should have to apologize for.

RickyJ  posted on  2009-11-13   14:07:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: RickyJ (#10)

What about the slavery going on today?

Ssshh, all slavery ended in 1865 when The Great Emancipator whipped the Nazi- like Confederacy, weren't you awake in FedGov U.S. History 101??

X-15  posted on  2009-11-13   18:14:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: X-15 (#11)

slavery ended in 1865 when The Great Emancipator whipped the Nazi- like Confederacy

The Great Emancipator?

You mean this guy:

Take a moment to bathe in his warm glow, you'll dig it!

Dakmar  posted on  2009-11-13   18:20:02 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Dakmar (#12)

slaves are cool, every boat owner needs one.

Flintlock  posted on  2009-11-13   19:14:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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