The Slave Ship

[L Verge]

"Mike and Linda, perhaps I read too many Asterix comics in my youth, but the first that would come to my mind about slavery was the Romans & Co. #2 was the British slave trade, and #3, I admit, the USA/CW."

Eva - I'm thirty years older than you, but I cut my teeth on historical comic books also. And, I was young and impressionable when Ben Hur and Spartacus (and a number of others) were major movie hits. I think I knew about Old World slavery before I did American slavery.

I doubt that we will ever see some people stop being 21st-century abolitionists and throwing so much blame on America. Our society is especially set on finding fault with itself nowadays. However, since we are all part of the global society now, I sincerely hope that we become educated enough to know that Americans were not the first and will not be the last to practice and profit from human bondage. Wouldn't it be nice if some of the talkers became doers in the fight? Just belaboring the past isn't going to do it.