Guess Nobody in Interested in This subject to debate ??
Why?? Because Nobody has read it !!

I really do believe, that Museums should be Educational!! But!! In relevance to the slave trade, I personally would have liked to see £10 million Spent in a much better way! To Benifit Our People!!

Delighted that you feel, Liverpool will have an advantage --(one Town)-- My preference wopuld be for all of our country to receive benifits for all of it's people: I suppose I would go for -- All or nothing??

Hi Phönix,
just for your information this issue is dealt with in German schools - so even if there's little interest in the UK for this topic, it's a current "European" topic.

On the one side you are right there still has to be much done to improve people's health and their quality of life, but on the other side we must learn from our past and you know in our today's world we have also "slave trade" - in another form than shown in the Liverpool Museum.
In Germany we often have special exhibitions in our Museums on a particular issue (of the past) and in my opinion it's quite interesting and those exhibitions are always very crowded, so there's a demand for such issues.

Phoenix,
I suppose you know I'm German - so as you may say - on the other side of this sad issue. However, when I was still at school I met an English family and as a symbol of friendship and forgiveness they invited me to spend my holidays with them in England. It was a great time for me and I would even say it marked my whole life. I believe bad things cannot be forgotten, but we can try to forgive each other. The slaves caught in Africa and transported to America under miserable conditions and sold there, they certainly have forgiven the white man their cruel fate in the meantime, but it wouldn't be good to forget it. As far as I can judge it's still part of the American problems.
As to WW II it was a war that made no sense (my family for instance had lived in Hungary for 200 years and from one day to the other we had to leave with only our clothes on the body, but it would make no sense to be angry with the Hungarians - many people had to leave the place where they lived for the one reason or other).
Thus we all must look forward and I hope that "at least" our grandchildren will be "Europeans" and no longer, Germans, English, French etc.

naturally there will never be equality - the economic conditions are too different, (but look at your country of my country, not all regions are equal - some are more powerful from the economic point of view), but what's more important - in my opinion - is that people understand and appreciate each other and accept the differences.  German pupils learn a lot of foreign language and take part in a lot of exchanges (with the UK it's a bit difficult, I don't know why). Last month Chinese pupils visited a school in our town and our pupils will visit them next year. Someone said some time that if you remove the skin from human beings they are all the same and their differences are formed by the skin and the different culture they grow up - so why shouldn't it be possible to develop an European culture?