‘Britain should be made to apologise for the slave trade’

Doubt? There is no doubt about, nobody alive today was involved in the trans-atlantic slave trade.

Black slave owners in Africa however are very much alive.

Personally i dont think being free should be considered a benefit or an apology...

Arguably, the apology happened when they were freed and the debt could we be considered paid by the benefits the slaves and their descendents have received from living, freed, in Britain.

In Britain we are only too happy to celebrate aspects of our history. Victory in the Second World War had nothing to do with most British people today, yet most readily celebrate it and are proud of it. It is hypocritical to then overlook the murkier aspects of our history and to not feel ashamed and sorry for the fact that those things happened. If we haven't already, we should apologise for the slave trade.

tell ya what - when the people who rounded up the slaves for sale (which was black africans) apologise for thier part - we should apologise.

Oh and when the Italians, apologise and the Egyptians and the south americans and every bloody country in the world seeing as slavery has been done by every empire not just the british one

what a load of bull - no we should not apologise

Considering the fact that some of your African classmates may still be living in mud huts without clean drinking water if it wasn't for the slavetrade they should be grateful.

tell ya what - when the people who rounded up the slaves for sale (which was black africans) apologise for thier part - we should apologise.

Oh and when the Italians, apologise and the Egyptians and the south americans and every bloody country in the world seeing as slavery has been done by every empire not just the british one

what a load of bull - no we should not apologise

do you blame todays germans for the holocaust?

No we shouldn't, it is in the past. If anybody should pay for it, it is the USA.

Considering the fact that some of your African classmates may still be living in mud huts without clean drinking water if it wasn't for the slavetrade they should be grateful.

This statement makes no sense, and the people who make it tend to be absolute idiots.

The slavetrade came and went yet there are still Africans living in horrible living conditions. This statement reeks of such utter stupidity its shocking.

Personally i dont think being free should be considered a benefit or an apology...