And Pelosi wept: Never forget that our leaders sold their people into slavery
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivers a speech at the Ghana's parliament, in Accra, on July 31, 2019 during a three-day visit to the country to mark the 400 years anniversary since the first slave shipment left the Ghana's coast for United States. PHOTO | NATALIJA GORMALOVA | AFP
In 1997, Hugh Thomas wrote a huge book titled The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870, which I recommend that every sensible African read.
In its almost one thousand pages of chilling details, Thomas dissects the horrendous commerce to which Africans were subjected for nearly five centuries, giving details of the major geographical areas of its operations, the principal villains of the crimes committed there, and statistics of the human cargoes that were transported out of the continent and where they were taken.
