To think descendants of slave owners should visit former plantations?

And what about many countries causing damage right now and doing no soul searching? Let's also start making a plan to educate their future generations for the wrongdoings of their ancestors today? Social media will help 🤔

But what do you mean by 'profiting'? Very, very people can trace wealth they have today directly back to slave profits, without the picture being complicated by multiple additional factors.

The rest of the world are vikings? Um, you might want to fact check that! 🤣

You said that no-one is responsible for their father's sins. So should they benefit financially from their father's sins? If yes, then why if they should bear no responsibity for them?

I mean the OP talks about a Trevelyan. If she's related to Trevelyan of the stolen corn could the OP please tell her we'd like Michael back!

Like many people whose family is from Yorkshire, my DNA is 40% Scandinavian (from the Viking settlement that was a much greater thing than the pillaging, etc) As you say, how far back are we going?

I would like reparations for the way my recent ancestors were treated. Forced to leave school at 12, working in Mills, coal mines, contracting terrible diseases, dying before they reached 40. Living in poverty and squalor, noo heating, no hot water, no flushing toilets. No welfare state, no national health. Watching their infants die of horrible childhood illnesses, contracting TB .
Yep!! I'll have some.of that!! Here's my bank details

What do you mean it only works one way?

ALL - as do most of the world, actually

Would descendants of the Barbary States like to reflect upon what their ancestors did? Didn't think so and they made European slave owners look like saints. Barbary pirates castrated their slaves so there'd be no descendants.

Honestly move on. Why does everyone now view the past through a modern lens. Why are modern standards applied to the past.

Do you mean just the Atlantic slave trade owners or the slave trade on the continent of Africa that was taking place before the Atlantic slave trade started?

www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/history-transatlantic-slave-trade#:~:text=Slavery%20existed%20in%20Africa%20before,as%20alcohol%2C%20beads%20and%20cloth.

Apparently, most ethnically English people have a small percentage of Scandinavian DNA, presumably from distant Viking ancestors.

No, but in that case should they benefit from the sins financially? Why does it only work one way?

My ancestors were likely poorly paid workers whose part in the slave trade was to make the chains whilst being paid a pittance (which went back to the boss anyway as payment for the house they had to live in) with no hope of improving their lot in life...

Should I be forced to pay those slaves back more than my ancestors would ever hope to own?

I don't think rich people should be forced to go to see atrocities "in the flesh" as it were before deciding they should use their vast wealth to help others... I think they should realise they can help people without needing to see these place. But that's a pipe dream

I think if you're profiting somehow, then yes you are. Morally at least. Sometimes it's good to look at it from the other person's point of view and then see what you think

We are ALL decedents of slave owners, every single one of us. And we are all decedents of slaves

This!

I wouldn’t be happy if I was expected to apologise for things I didn’t personally do. There have been some absolute dicks in my family, for example my father abused my mother. So I’m responsible for his actions, am I?

It's not just white people descended from slave owners.

I agree with this. About the unfair wealth, if someone wants to create a charity, it is great but you cannot force people. Kids of CEOs, investment managers, politicians have unfair advantage which kids of people working in the companies at junior levels or those impacted by the loss of their investments thanks to ambitious and agreed decisions made by hedge fund managers don't. What about when a parent give inheritance to one child and not the other and the children of those who left out are impacted. I would be all for it, if this social justice is done for everyone but I think it won't happen, and such debates can only make one side not resentful and angry rather than moving on.

Put your efforts and the spotlight on current day slavery and trafficking. Those people need help more.

A million times this

Absolutely.
Similarly, the Ottoman Empire invaded, raped and pillaged my country and neighbouring countries; took young women as sex slaves in harems and boy children (toddlers+) to forcibly convert into their religion.
The Turkish people, Turkey as a state as well as the other nearby states who made up the Ottoman Empire should be made face this, have it in their history books including the suffering the Ottoman Empire caused, and pay reparations.

I just actually googled and Charles Trevelyan was her great great great grandfather. He is one of the most hated figures in Irish History and is name most people here will have heard of. His family also received massive amounts of compensation from Queen Victoria in the early 1800s for the abolition of slavery so they seemed to cause absolute fucking misery all over the globe so I can possibly understand her personally being ashamed of her family's past past. However no you can't hold people accountable for things their ancestors did.

I feel that by dismissing this, you're being selective and about which bits of history you care about.