I think that it is terrible what the slaves went through. No one deserves that kind of treatment and this event is one in history that most Americans today are ashamed of. I have seen movies and read books about slavery and the middle passage and it was really just as horrible as it sounded and looked like in the movies and what we visualized by reading the books. There is no way to sugar coat it and make it look like, everything about this was horrible. Humans were treated as no more than livestock, where it didn't matter if they lived or died as long as they made a profit. They being the white man.
There is no way that we could allow something like this to happen again, thats what most people would say. Truth is, things ARE happening that are like this today, but we are so cut off from what is going on that we don't really do anything. Thats not to say that I alone could save those millions killed in Darfur, or can, but I can try to make a difference. Honest truth is, America isn't doing much to help people in that situation, its pretty shameful actually.
The focus is on our economy and how to successfully restore it so we aren't owing the trillions and trillions of dollars that we are now in debt for. I could go on. The slave trade was horrible and an event that was not something we Americans are proud of, we should make sure that things like this don't happen in the future, or at least do our best to help out where we can.
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