[nerdponx]

I think maybe the difference is that there is direct social and cultural continuity between today's people and the people who both perpetrated and were victims of the slave trade, and those same people live in a society with very different values from those of the past wherein slavery was common. The victim lineage also still is suffering from its negative effects. Which victims of the Islamic slave trade are still negatively affected by it? Who can even tell whose ancestors were enslaved?

I think in general we should be horrified by any mass scale slave trade. We just have a personal/social connection to one in particular.

[the-printer]

> I think maybe the difference is that there is direct social and cultural continuity between today's people and the people who both perpetrated and were victims of the slave trade, and those same people live in a society with very different values from those of the past wherein slavery was common. The victim lineage also still is suffering from its negative effects.

Yeah, thank you! That's what I was trying to get across.

[pipes]

You do make a valid point and it's not something I'd thought about before. However I think if you consider when slavery was ended by year/country around the world: https://vividmaps.com/abolition-of-slavery/

You can see that given how late so many countries were to end slavery that many peoples through out the world must still be directly impacted. Not just descendents of slaves in America. In fact in some places slavery still unofficially persists for these direct descendants.

My guess is that America gets more of the negative attention due to being the leader of the free world.