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My point wasn't that anyone has a monopoly on suffering; it was merely that people make it sound like the Holocaust was the sole bad thing that happened to the Jewish people. Granted, I'm no scholar of either Jewish or African/African American history, but the Jewish people have had an unpleasant ride for millennia. I don't know enough about the history of the African continent to remember what all happened there.[/quote]

Ok, I understand. Being held in bondage was no minor thing. Also, what we forget is that the suffering that the slave trade caused in Africa was tremendous. Lots of tribes had to move to the less hospitable areas to avoid traders. The Africans often deformed their faces to make themselves less attractive to the traders. Some actually volunteered to come to the Americas as indentured servants rather than taken involutarily as a slave. Also, in the process of capturing and moving slaves around, tons of people lost their lives. Some estimate that up to 1/3 died just on the middle passage. 
Being a slave was like someone coming and cleaning out your entire account and just taking everything. Like you never worked for anything. All your past and future earnings, gone.
Also, you know how people feel sorry for people who have their kids taken away? You know the drama on TV with the adoptive mother losing a kid or a parent being called unfit and the parent runs out screaming as they take the child away? Well slaves experienced that MOST of the time with their kids! 
Also, do you hate your boss? Could you imagine having to have sex with him? Or better yet, he comes over and asks for your 12 year old daughter (or son). 
Think about it....[/quote]

In all fairness, the PP did not contest any of this. It's without question that the slave trade and slavery were a gigantic injustice.

One particular sad aspect of the slave trade is that it were often local African rulers who sold their kin into slavery.

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