General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I very much doubt that the the African slaves would have had a better life in America, or anywhere else come to that. From the outset of their journey's from their homeland, they died in huge numbers from the crammed and squalid conditions they were shackled in and from diseases they had never encountered before.

Sold at slave markets.
Children torn from mothers arms, never to be reunited. Women raped, abused, starved, beaten and worked to the point of dropping, in either in fields or households and goodness knows what else. Children fared no better.
Men in all kinds of hard labour work, whipped for the slightest misdemeanor, hung for attempting to run away, forced into savage, to the death fights for sport. And goodness knows what other abuses.
I bet they were really grateful for being educated into our civilized ways.

I don't agree with the tearing down of monuments, it is after all our shameful past, of which we all, including the black communities, should never be allowed to forget.
To eradicate these reminders, as with the German death camps, is leaving this part of history to be repeated.
Although the making amends for it all now, is in my opinion, causing divisions and resentments. P