Dear Ralph et. al:
You've raise some very significant issues indeed. The numbers
game and slavery is both essential yet very dangerous and in my experience
it seems that the reluctance to objectivize the slavery epoch is because
it is more akin to rape than murder and therefore causes a different
psychological reaction. Hence holocaust survivors can have anger and no
shame where survivors of slavery can have both. Also the issue of African
roles in slavery is not an issue to be silenced by P.C. but needs to be
discussed as an essential part of the slave trade
process. There is much that needs discussion here, andyou your proposed
conference is much needed.
Richard Lobban