Own Up To Gruesome Facts

200 years back,on 25 March 1807,the British Parliament voted to ban slave trade.It was a momentous event in the history of mankind.The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was a curse on humanity,cruel and barbaric,perpetrated by the so called 'civilised' Western World.The destruction ,raping of African culture and heritage took place because of the slave trade.The guilt of the complicit nature of the Church in the early years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade is also something the Church and the West would have to live with.Nothing can be done to erase the painful memories Africans have of slave trade.But an apology from the 'main parties' involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade can go a long way in assuaging the feelings of Africans and also in erasing the guilt which many whites feel because of the fact that their forefathers and foremothers were involved in the slave trade.I hope that countries learn lessons from the past and strive to prevent enslavement of any community in any part of the world i.e.Darfur.