To think descendants of slave owners should visit former plantations?

If you don't know, then you are probably not directly descended from wealthy slave owners. In which case OP is not talking about you.

There's an online database that lists everyone who owned slaves. At the time it was the norm for people to invest in them in the way they do with stocks and shares or property today. So someone living in Manchester might part own a slave in Jamaica as a means of funding their retirement, even though they'd never even been there.

You can search for your ancestors names on the database:
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Particularly if their family still has wealth

Well, unless you're proposing that the people who haven't got a penny of inherited wealth or privilege as a result of what happened 190+ years ago get a free holiday, it would have to be the wealthy ones, wouldn't it?

Tell me you're a communist without telling me you're a communist 👀😂

No but it is gracious and decent to feel sorry about them (not 'for' them) and to want to try to make amends, especially if the father's or ancestor's sins have made them rich.

Don't be so ridiculous.

This is such a facile argument.

How would most people even know?

And no doubt are you just talking about the white descendents of slave owners? Or are you rolling in the north Africans who kidnapped whole villages of people from Cornwall or Wales.

What about the Russians. So many were enslaved that this is literally where the word slave comes from. Are you tracking the descendents of the ottomans etc who owned those slaves?

Or is this just another boring attempt at making white a pejorative word?

That's not most of the world I also think if you think what is going on today in many parts of Africa as a direct result of colonialism is ok because 'modern Africans' might have some Viking genes

Surely a much simpler answer to this rather ridiculous suggestion would be a less capitalist based and more socialist based society? Higher taxes for extreme wealth, more investment in public education, disability, housing etc and the various factors that contribute to intergenerational poverty.

Another relevant point to consider is the products we buy. For exame a rich person with inherited wealth buys high quality goods from an ethically sourced product, a poorer person buys a cheaper version made by a slave or indentured worker, who is morally better?

Interesting that when I made a similar comment a few years ago I was put on the MN naughty step, does that mean we're becoming more realistic about the past?

Doesn't that just prove OPs point though, that understanding is important?

In WW2 the smart-looking Gestapo uniforms were designed and made by Hugo Boss, I wonder how many posters have bought their products without that knowledge?

I doubt it, reading most of these thread it's all about the justification that it's ok and not a big deal. It's not 'done' when the general consensus from what I can assume is mostly white people is that it's not a big deal because it happened a long time ago or because someone else did it too

No, but I do recommend visiting Rome because I am sure some of my forefathers were killed by those nasty abusive Italians c 2,000 years ago.

The white slave traders bought the slaves at slave markets from their existing African owners.
Slavery was rife across Africa and had been for many centuries.
Mansa Musa, Emporer of Mali, famously took 12,000 of his personal slaves with him on his pilgrimage to Mecca.

It is probable that they do. The Vikings were in Africa. All modern Africans are descended from all people who were in Africa 2k ago..Yes of course there are other parts of the world other than Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. I said MOST of the world has Viking ancestry. Not ALL of the world has Viking ancestry

I suggest you improve your reading skills before criticising anyone else's areas of academic expertise.

The people we should be angry with are industrialists now amassed fortunes while their workers (actually doing the work to make the money) live in poverty.

It has no value if it is forced, and the sins of the father. If someone chooses to do it, great.

That's already been done. I think compensation £££ is what's some people are after

Here's a profound thought. Sometimes 'paying it back' can actually just mean an acknowledgement and/or apology. Rather than a justification of why something was ok or doesn't matter 🤷🏼‍♀️ worth having a think about

There were many industrialists who made fortunes exploiting the working class people (like my ancesters) in this country who have handed down their fortunes through the subsequent generations.

Should they tour abandoned coal mines and cotton mills?

You realise there's other people in the world than what you've listed? I hope your genetics is as good as your geography and physics! And I don't think everyone in Africa has Viking genes even though I don't study genetics.

In Africa there were Black people helping the White slavers .

Why don't people focus on modern day slavery instead focusing on the past . The past is gone , all those people are dead and gone . Why not focus on the living slaves,and focusing their energy and doing something about that .

Or the Viking bit could actually be a Norman. My granny had a surname which is a typical Norman name. I think that's where my Scandinavian DNA comes from.