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[quote:756f2]It was African slavemasters that sold the slaves to the Europeans.[/quote:756f2]

You've got to be kidding me. Granted there could be instances where other Africans aided in their brother and sisters capture - HOWEVER, - and I'm still laughing that you just typed that out as a definitive statement - Portugeuse "businessmen" started the slave trade in Africa, and it was bicked up on by other Euro countries. So no, you could just turn a corner and find a helping African ready to sell out his fellow people.

And as far as reperations - well I dont think if your mother smoked cigarrettes so and so years ago, and died, you'd think your family had a time limitation on receiving remittance. I truly wish some of you would do some research into slavery and see just how fucked up it really was and ho wmany lives and families it ruined. Or not - I mean it happened in the past, its ALL in the past right.