Point of interest; in Africa I lived among the Ashantis, who made a fortune capturing and exporting their neighbors, and once a friend and I crossed ninety miles of roadless bush on foot over Ghana's Afram Plains, an area still depopulated as a result of prior slave raids.
My closest friend in my village was a WWII Veteran who had fought the Japanese in Burma (the British Gold Coast Regiment). His mother had been captured by the Ashantis as a slave.
Look, moral equivalency is irrelevant here.
We are not talking subjugation of the Indians here (tho actually too, lots of Frontier Whites were subsequently displaced as ruthlessly as any Indian), or child labor in Vietnam, or sex -slavery in Thailand.
We are talking about the War Between the States.
Birdwatcher
