Slavery - The Legacy

The descendants of slaves should be paid reparations for 300 years of forced labour!

The UN says:

Slavery and the slave trade are among the worst violations of human rights in the history of humanity. The transatlantic slave trade was unique within the entire history of slavery due to its duration (four hundred years), its scale (approximately 17 million people excluding those who died during transport) and the legitimization accorded to it, including under laws of the time.

The transatlantic slave trade constituted the biggest deportation in history and is often referred to as the first example of globalization. Lasting from the 16th century to the 19th century, it involved several regions and continents: Africa, North and South America, Europe and the Caribbean and resulted in the sale and exploitation of millions of Africans by Europeans.

Legacy

The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is the subject of much debate. There can be no doubt that it resulted in the destruction of a significant portion of the language, culture and religion of millions of enslaved Africans. The removal of such large numbers of people from Africa disrupted the African economy and is believed by some scholars to have permanently disadvantaged Africa compared to other parts of the world. It can also be argued that slavery redefined Africans to the world, leaving a legacy of racism and stereotyping of Africans as inferior.

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[stepheng1483]

Jews dominated the slave trade, they owned the majority of slave ships and slaves. Read the book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, it proves this using only Jewish historic documents.

[bigred3219]

anybody that supports reparations is an idiot.

[xXNuclearWarXx]

The legacy of slavery in America is that blacks are now afforded the same rights as whites and enjoy the benefit of living in a first world country, and all the while have never experienced any of the horrors of slavery first hand. Black slaves may have suffered, but their descendants have only benefitted from slavery.

Every race has seen its share of horrors in the past, but demanding a handout because of it seems a little lazy and opportunistic.

[dayspeace]

I think this is nice video, portraying the need to recognize the wrong doing that has been done to the black people. and also to learn from the mistake of the past.

[joelggreer]

Nothing is quite as ridiculous as watching one person trying to "win" an argument...when there IS no argument.

It is no more necessary to try to convince people that slavery is wrong, then to try to convince someone that killing and eating children is wrong.

Were there someone, or some group of people trying to allege that slavery was acceptable, that would be a different matter.

Early Americans didn't invent slavery, just wrongly imitated other Countries that did the same thing.

Read History

[Sand9woman]

Not All Americas negroid indian etc participated in this "slave-trade game" as victim though sum did.

[Sand9woman]

Let's be factual. No one is born [descendent of ] slave...unless of course you are SlavIC from which the term slavE is derived. Roots...origins...etymology...­phonetics...Descendents of the kidnapped should not be paid ayi thing that already belongs to them. A trick no treat. That's a beggar's game.

[Sand9woman]

"Russians, Irish, the first setters of America were white salves before they". Russian/Irish do not = white or Caucasoid. Keywords to look up/their origin: Amer; Amexam; Hexian; Khan Khan; Olmec. Ourstory predates History. Any reading stars knows. Caucasians are not autochthonous to the Americas [or any where on Ta or under Ma] hence the Caucus [Mountain] Asian. Not enough space to elaborate. Miraat pyramids ALL over the earth and under the water and the stars(suns) don't lie. Let us reasun.

[twizelby]

@Sand9woman Russians, Irish, the first setters of America were white salves before they used Africans, Greek society, tribes in the bible would enslave whoever they conquered, slavery, people during industrialization were severely mistreated not quite slaves but close.

[Sand9woman]

@twizelby "I kind of think you are saying that black people are exploited more then other races??? if this is not the argument you are making...disregard this comment. It is true that corporations exploit African nations, but the same can be said about chinese sweatshops, ... the adjectives white, black, yellow, purple and brown ... what I was arguing ..." Agreed blacks aren't alone. Just saying can any1 here list any group of Caucasoid [brown eyed mix don't count] that have been exploited?.

[twizelby]

@Sand9woman I kind of think you are saying that black people are exploited more then other races??? if this is not the argument you are making then disregard this comment. It is true that corporations exploit African nations, but the same can be said about chinese sweatshops, or people from india who work for little pay, or south americans and mexicans. also the adjectives white, black, yellow, purple and brown are exactly what I was arguing in the first place.

[twizelby]

@Sand9woman im sorry I cant understand what you are writing