Ghana’s President John Mahama has received the African Union’s backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the ‘gravest crime against humanity.’

There is broad historical consensus that the transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries, which involved the kidnapping, enslavement and transport of millions of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean, was one of the biggest tragedies in human history.

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    1 day ago

    It’s a basic part of cognition to compare things when claims of are made about something being the worst. Any ‘whataboutism’ is your own bias projection. Why do you want to erase the victims of other slavery systems from the conversation?