I was watching the movie "Amazing Grace" on TV this afternoon. It is the story of William Wilberforce and his fight to end the legal slave trade in England. At the beginning of the movie there is a statement that "by this time more than 11 million men women and children had been taken from Africa to be slaves."
My thoughts - this must have been an enormous scar on the continent. I've often thought critically of Africa. I believe it's called "the dark continent" no just because many of the people have dark skin, but because it has been a place of human bondage, brutal government leaders, poverty and disease. I know there is no way to measure the degree of damage slavery caused, but I have to wonder if the wound was so deep and great as to be the cause the suffering of many generations.
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