More on that slave trade thing...

[annwfyn]

This was on the BBC news website this morning, and I thought it offered an interesting and slightly different perspective on the issue - it's the BBC trying to get the views of black Britons on the anniversary of the slave trade. As one of the issues which was raised in various livejournal discussions of this issue was that we, as largely white English kids, may be missing something somewhere, I thought folk might find this interesting.

Edit: Some more on how the slave trade has actively affected the lives of people in the modern day - specifically how it messed up Africa to such an extent that the continent is still suffering.