tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post1805206550982565227..comments2024-01-12T00:24:35.544+01:00Comments on St Bloggie de Riviere: World SlaverySarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-25639599561111434952007-03-28T21:41:00.000+02:002007-03-28T21:41:00.000+02:00Britain has formally recognised the wrong it did, ...Britain has formally recognised the wrong it did, Richard, in Blair's famous 'Regret' speech. What's that if not a formal recognition?<BR/><BR/>Why sue now, though? Who else is going to be found to have followed orders, and sued? Or rather, people who have nothing to do with the original crime. Not even their families.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-4395092166469356722007-03-28T21:06:00.000+02:002007-03-28T21:06:00.000+02:00200 years ago Britain abolished the slave trade. F...200 years ago Britain abolished the slave trade. For long years thereafter slaving continued in UK colonies and the US. The major 19 th century British production of cotton goods was dependent on the large US plantations which used slave labour.<BR/><BR/>Britain did not support the yankees during the American civil war, they were officially neutral but at times close to supporting the confederacy. So at the time of the US civil war (1861-1865) the UK did not support the abolishment of slavery. It was abolished in the Euro American sphere thanks to President Lincoln with strictly NO British support.<BR/><BR/>The damaged party are the descendants of the slaves, if they feel an apology would help them to overcome the stigma of the slaving, who are we we to contradict. Indeed I can fully understand their feelings and I am sure in their postion I would be comforted if the responsible nations recognized their crimes.<BR/>As a descendant of the people who did the slaving I feel a need for our nations to formally recognize the wrong we did. The day when we recognize, no ifs no buts, that our part in slaving was intolerable, will be a good day. The same goes for many other bad deeds, let's get started, it shouldn't take too long nor cost too much.richard of orleanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08821981371460225723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-66166933156304994282007-03-28T19:58:00.000+02:002007-03-28T19:58:00.000+02:00They sue for the example, Sarah, and so that no on...They sue for the example, Sarah, and so that no one can ever say again, "it's not me, I'm just being obedient to my boss" - as the nazis did and the SNCF saying it was Vichy, not they. All human beings can say no and no and no. And if they were not such cowards they ones there to say no are more numerous than the others!!<BR/><BR/> Most of those suing could not care a less about the money. The law case brings back to the front page the awful excuse of saying I did it becos I was told to, did my duty, did not have the choice"....<BR/><BR/>Slavery problems on a big scale end up by producing whole generations of people who hate their own countrymen, because for years they were given work no one would do, left out of even the most elementary comfort, education or social rights, and thus gave birth to future generations who wish to get their own back. We planted the poison seed......<BR/><BR/>Today's slavery, as Louise so rightly said is still going on - maids who work 24 hours a day in posh Neuilly houses and embassies, but worse still, children working for a miserable two pennies 12 hours a day in oriental countries for well known makes of clothes and shoes......it costs less, and the children work as slaves until they drop.<BR/><BR/>Heartbreaking. We are sufficiently numerous to put a stop to all that - but of course we won't be winning the popularity prise of the year!! So let's get at it!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-70418982311053569192007-03-28T08:51:00.000+02:002007-03-28T08:51:00.000+02:00Slavery is outlawed throughout the world. All gove...Slavery is outlawed throughout the world. All governments have to do is apply their own laws. Why don't they do this, I wonder?<BR/><BR/>I read about this SNCF case and wondered what the families thought they were doing. It feels like a money-making ploy, else why sue?Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195684182481935384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-21894181189279891132007-03-28T06:41:00.000+02:002007-03-28T06:41:00.000+02:00PS Mouse has also published a blog in the same ve...PS Mouse has also published a blog in the same veinLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18862674.post-71108957355695628692007-03-28T06:40:00.000+02:002007-03-28T06:40:00.000+02:00It would surely be more useful to stop modern slav...It would surely be more useful to stop modern slavery than 'apologising' for things that happened centuries ago. Aprt from slavery still existing in 'emerging countries' we have daily examples of it happening on our doorstep - girls who are taken on as maids, their passports stolen, unpaid and confined to the house, sometimes for years...<BR/><BR/>In the same 'apologising' vein, there is the court case currently ajourned, of families of victims of the Holocaust suing the SNCF for allowing their trains to be used to send Jews to Drancy. Did the SNCF have the choice?Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277397635514758674noreply@blogger.com