re: Watching Roots and its making me sick

1) The willing complicity of black Africans in the slave trade is one of the biggest "secrets" (i.e., coverup) in the history of slavery.

2) There were some sadistic bastards the owned slaves or were overseers; however, the majority of slaveowners were businessmen who realized that slaves were a substantial capital investment that did him no good if they were injure or dead. Read Time on the Cross.