While land theft and genocide are difficult problems for man to solve, descendents of the slave-traded may find slave trading a difficult problem to forget.
History tells us that more than one country exported human beings to the “new world”. History tells us that some were exported to the new world as indentured servants. History tells us that some were exported to the new world as “overflow” from jails of the exporting country. And in the case of Africa – history tells us that some were exported as human slaves. AFRICA’S BRAIN-DRAIN had begun.
Slavery was an AFRICAN BRAIN-DRAIN that African leaders failed to recognize – apparently.
In America, Africa’s slaves were processed into the American system of chopping and picking cotton. America’s South had the political and religious structures that “welcomed” and used slave labor.
Africa shipped its brothers and sisters off to a land that handled slaves unmercifully. But the slaves still survived and eventually won freedom and prospered. The ex-slaves never looked back with a longing to return to countries that provided slave traders with their human cargo.
Two of man’s most difficult problems to solve are land theft and genocide. But it is not easy to solve the problem of descendents of slaves feeling good about countries that sold their parents into slavery. That is, for anyone, a “tough row to hoe” .
History has mentioned the trip from Africa to America as being
