This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/730.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Give it up folks. It was a way of life for the entire world at one time or another in history. The Africans were gathered and sold by Africans who could have cared less what happened to them. Most peoples have stopped slavery now. My ancestors bought and sold slaves, but I don't condem or apologize for what they did.