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Slave Trade
Should we apologise? We abolished the trade over 200 years ago, and our navy were rigorous in intercepting slave ships after we had abolished the trade, so should we still apologise?
Personally I can't see the point - the world was a whole different place 200 years ago.
Personally I can't see the point - the world was a whole different place 200 years ago.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Whilst I was in New York last year I met a black guy (Gulf War vet...I bought him a Wendys :o) who started banging on about how I should 'take him back' to the UK as I had promised him this and that and his people had got a 'big fat nothin'.
I politely told him I had promised him a Wendys, and had delivered accordingly.
I politely told him I had promised him a Wendys, and had delivered accordingly.
My father who died last year was a slave for three and a half years, as prisoner of war in Malaya, and worked building the Burma railway.
He was beaten and starved and weighed only five and a half stone at the wars end.
He and his comrades never got an apology from the Japanese government, or any compensation.
Blairs government gave them all �10,000 each in 1998, (what was left of them).
I think an apology would have helped, when he was alive, but it would be worthless now. Same with the slave trade, there's nobody directly involved to apologise to.
He was beaten and starved and weighed only five and a half stone at the wars end.
He and his comrades never got an apology from the Japanese government, or any compensation.
Blairs government gave them all �10,000 each in 1998, (what was left of them).
I think an apology would have helped, when he was alive, but it would be worthless now. Same with the slave trade, there's nobody directly involved to apologise to.