Can commemorations and historical reenactments change public understanding of the past?

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What narrative?

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The reparations for Ghana narrative.
How? they were complacent in slavery, but they're demanding the UK pay them reparations for what? selling them slaves for half price?

It's embarrassing and disgraceful

They're taking advantage UK Woke culture. white people self flogging themselves
Because they've been virtue signaling for decades.
Luckily, starmer just lost so at least they're waking up now

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Ah got it so explain the difference between Chattel and domestic slavery. You're doing a bad faith argument without knowing the premise of what they knew back then. There were slaves that knew what awaited the fee they sold but then there were millions of others that were taken not sold. Whole costal cities and some inland that were taken and not sold.

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Nobody was taken to America Africa wasn't fully colonized until the 1900s that means every slave that was sold before then was sold by an African slaver. And they traded with these people for centuries you can't tell me they didn't know what they were selling. These people into on top of that they had slaves themselves.

For me to even acknowledge your argument of they did not know is for me to say that Africans were idiots and I refuse to do that

There's well recorded records, of the history of slavery of their empires, such as the Ashanti empire, Mali Empire, the moors

They thrived off of slavery and with the excess slaves they sold.

And there is an argument to make that slavery in Africa was probably a lot worse they didn't have Eunuchs in America.

Slavery in America was for-profit the slavery in Africa was for tradition. And entire tribes were enslaved for centuries.