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Originally Posted by Tom4784
After propagating it and profiting from it. Fixing a problem you created isn't heroism. Those lives were lost because we profited from the Slave Trade. We aren't the heroes of this story that you think we are.
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Trying to fix wrongs of the past doesn't absolve them, but the only guilt isn't inherited by those who followed. Some of the tribes who profited from the slave trade, such as the Dahomeys, wanted the European slave trade to continue.
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When [King Ghezo] seized the throne in 1818, one of his first acts was to punish his family rivals by selling them into slavery. And for much of his reign he actively resisted pressure from Europe to end the trade in human beings, since by the 1830s and 1840s the British were vigorously trying to stamp it out, even blockading his coastline with Royal Navy ships.
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it's not a case of "whites bad, blacks good" when it comes to slavery. But guilt and responsibility for actions aren't inheritable.
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