DeyDurkie5 wrote: hundreds of years from now, if abortion is illegal, are they going to feel bad that we had legalized abortion? No, it's how history works, you change for the better or worse and can't dwell on what happened back when it was an accepted part of society.

majorspark wrote:

Sonofanump wrote:

Apple wrote: Probably the only way I would feel guilty is if my family has "old money" that can be directly traced to slavery.

I was thinking close to this, that the only way I would feel guilty is if I lived on a southern plantation.

Do you feel guilty about living on land taken from native Americans?

I have no control over what some distant relative may or may not have done 150 years ago. So I do not feel guilty.

As for the slavery issue many of our ancestors shed alot of blood over the issue. The Civil War took the lives of just under 2% of the population of the US at the time. That would equate to around 5.7 million dead using todays US population. I would say it had quite an impact on most of our ancestors.

ManO'War wrote: So should a black person feel guilty if they learned that their ancestors were involved in the triangular trade from the African side??

bigkahuna wrote: Playing Devil's Advocate here. If you are of German Decent; would you feel guilty if your ancestors were Nazi Officers during the Holocaust? Being this was only 50-60 years ago, "intelligence" was more advanced.

Belly35 wrote:What able the Irish Slaves …

Gblock wrote: i dont even know who my ancesters were...i know many blacks cant really trace their ancenstry very far for various reasons.....it would be interesting to know more about where im from or what different ethnicities i might have in me

Belly35 wrote: What about ( misspelling sorry) the Irish Slaves … why is slaver only identified with Africans?
The fact is more Irish where sold as slaves, murdered and where tortured worse that many Black slave because they where of less value that the African slave purchased at auction. In the mid 1600 over 300,000 Irish where sold as slaves.

UA5straightin2008 wrote:

Belly35 wrote: What about ( misspelling sorry) the Irish Slaves … why is slaver only identified with Africans?
The fact is more Irish where sold as slaves, murdered and where tortured worse that many Black slave because they where of less value that the African slave purchased at auction. In the mid 1600 over 300,000 Irish where sold as slaves.

i find that a little hard to believe seeing that there were 11 million Africans brought to the New World and enslaved, compared to just 300,000. Not that either was right..

justcompete wrote: UA, this is a college class. You had better say what the teacher wants to hear and receive a good grade. It doesn't matter what you think. Been there, done that, got burned.

Society wrote:

UA5straightin2008 wrote:

Belly35 wrote: What about ( misspelling sorry) the Irish Slaves … why is slaver only identified with Africans?
The fact is more Irish where sold as slaves, murdered and where tortured worse than many Black slave because they where of less value that the African slave purchased at auction. In the mid 1600 over 300,000 Irish where sold as slaves.

i find that a little hard to believe seeing that there were 11 million Africans brought to the New World and enslaved, compared to just 300,000. Not that either was right..

You are taking 2 completely different time periods and 2 different land areas, as an entirety, and trying to compare the two.

The New World is not just the United States as it is today and slavery wasn't just in the very late 1700's and most of the 1800's. It was going on long before then.

UA5straightin2008 wrote:

Society wrote:

UA5straightin2008 wrote:

Belly35 wrote: What about ( misspelling sorry) the Irish Slaves … why is slaver only identified with Africans?
The fact is more Irish where sold as slaves, murdered and where tortured worse than many Black slave because they where of less value that the African slave purchased at auction. In the mid 1600 over 300,000 Irish where sold as slaves.

i find that a little hard to believe seeing that there were 11 million Africans brought to the New World and enslaved, compared to just 300,000. Not that either was right..

You are taking 2 completely different time periods and 2 different land areas, as an entirety, and trying to compare the two.

The New World is not just the United States as it is today and slavery wasn't just in the very late 1700's and most of the 1800's. It was going on long before then.

i understand that

i was responding to the bolded statement....300,000<<<<<<<11,000,000

and where did i ever say the New World only consisted of the United States?

(i almost said united states in my post, but i corrected myself because i know many of the slaves went through cuba, the caribbean, etc)

UA5straightin2008 wrote: how did you come across this forum?

Society wrote:

Gblock wrote: i dont even know who my ancesters were...i know many blacks cant really trace their ancenstry very far for various reasons.....it would be interesting to know more about where im from or what different ethnicities i might have in me

There is a chance that your ancestors were slave owners. I know...we don't celebrate that possibility in Black History Month.

JamesDeWolf wrote: Another poster said, "the only way I would feel guilty is if I lived on a southern plantation." The documentary explains that slavery was actually widespread in the northern and midwestern states, and the economy in each region of the country depended heavily on slavery.

James DeWolf Perry
http://living.jdewperry.com/