'Slavery? That's so long ago!'

People think of slavery as a thing of the past. That is, if they want to think (or talk) about it at all. Since the white western world was involved in slavetrade and slavekeeping up to their ears, admitting that is not a popular pastime. Revisionism runs rampant, school textbooks lack the most basic facts about slavery. 'Itīs a long time ago', you will hear people say. Well, the transatlantic slavetrade went on for a few hundred years and slavery was abolished only a few generations ago. How people with a skincolor darker than white are treated nowadays, what we call 'anti-black racism', is rooted firmly in the way slaves were seen and treated.
So it is important to talk about it, to acknowledge what happened and what the consequences are for modern society, important for the descendants of the victims and for the descendants of the perpetrators. What's more, slavery is not 'abolished' as such. There are still 27 million people on this world who are kept in slavery. Think about that...