Owning another human being is wrong no matter what year, decade, or century it is.

Also, we shouldn't judge someone by the actions of their ancestors.

Slavery is wrong but it has gone on throughout known history. One Muslim country did not outlaw it intil 1981. Sultans visited Btitisb royalty with a large slave retinue in the 1950s.

The fact that black Africans sold their fellow black Africans does not make them any more culpable or less culpable than the people that bought the slaves.

I think it is ridiculous to use that as an argument that White caucasians are not to blame for slavery. No one would sell a slave if there was not a buyer.

It was also wrong back then.

I would like to think mankind has made some progress since then.

Was a different time then

It probably won’t even make a ripple...slavery is as old as mankind. Prisoners were stolen from different tribes, either in raids or taken as prisoners of war, and either put to work or traded for goods or gold, long before Europeans began doing it on an industrial scale. How did the White Europeans manage to capture so many slaves in the first place? Well of course they didn’t, they bought them from the Black African and Arabic slave masters. Anyone who believes otherwise is completely ignorant of history.

I suspect that, if our species is still extant a hundred years from now, wage slavery (what we now innocently think of as employment) will be regarded as we now regard the slavery of a hundred years ago. So anyone who now owns a business based on economic coercion of “employees” may be regarded as those who used physical coercion for the same ends. Just saying... it would have been that difficult for people of those times to have seen the moral error of their ways. If you can’t see it now, you couldn’t have seen it then. Coercion is coercion.

Why will it set up a hornet's nest?