Reparations? Geez, sounds like we need a fact-check! The slavery that occurred in North America was an extension of the slave trade that had been around since ancient times. The USA was an organized country for only 20-years before the slave trade was outlawed here [in 1808]. Anyone that knows history understands that if Reparations are …
Reparations? Geez, sounds like we need a fact-check! The slavery that occurred in North America was an extension of the slave trade that had been around since ancient times. The USA was an organized country for only 20-years before the slave trade was outlawed here [in 1808]. Anyone that knows history understands that if Reparations are paid, they should be paid by the countries of Africa and Europe. This is simply a debt of very few people in the USA and that debt was most likely paid for in other ways. Ask yourself what toll did the Revolutionary War have on slave owners. How about the Civil War? Sherman's March? It's time to understand history, not blindly pay for it. Americans were never known to directly enslave people. When they fought the Indians, were Indians enslaved? When they fought Mexicans, were Mexicans enslaved? Slavery had existed in Africa since ancient times because Africans would TRADE THEIR OWN in exchange for goods. Later, enslaved Africans became part of the international trade network used extensively by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the Americas. By the 1480s Portuguese ships were transporting Africans for use as enslaved laborers on sugar plantations in the Cape Verde & Madeira islands. During those early years, the Portuguese generally purchased Africans who had been enslaved during tribal wars. Spanish conquistadors took enslaved Africans to the Caribbean after 1502, but Portuguese merchants still dominated the transatlantic slave trade for another century and a half, operating from their bases in the Congo-Angola area. The Dutch became the foremost traders of African slaves during parts of the 1600s, and in the following century English and French merchants controlled about half of the transatlantic slave trade, taking a large percentage of their human cargo from the region of West Africa between the Sénégal and Niger rivers. The English became involved with the Slave Trade starting in the mid to late 1600's and the pattern of Triangular Trade across the Atlantic was formed. Goods brought from England to Africa included iron products, cloth, trinkets and beads, copper, guns, & ammunition. Slaves were the most important 'commodity' sent from Africa due to the free labor needed for European [not American] expansion. At the time of the American Revolution, there was widespread support in the American colonies for prohibiting the importation of more slaves. After the Revolution, at the insistence of Southern states, Congress waited more than 2-decades before making the importation of slaves illegal. When Congress did so, in 1808, the law was enacted with little dissent. It should be noted that Great Britain did not outlaw Slave-trade in its territories until 1833. The countries directly responsible for the triangular slave trade are in Africa and Europe. If it's not obvious, then you are stupid, ignorant, or unwilling to face the facts.
Reparations? Geez, sounds like we need a fact-check! The slavery that occurred in North America was an extension of the slave trade that had been around since ancient times. The USA was an organized country for only 20-years before the slave trade was outlawed here [in 1808]. Anyone that knows history understands that if Reparations are paid, they should be paid by the countries of Africa and Europe. This is simply a debt of very few people in the USA and that debt was most likely paid for in other ways. Ask yourself what toll did the Revolutionary War have on slave owners. How about the Civil War? Sherman's March? It's time to understand history, not blindly pay for it. Americans were never known to directly enslave people. When they fought the Indians, were Indians enslaved? When they fought Mexicans, were Mexicans enslaved? Slavery had existed in Africa since ancient times because Africans would TRADE THEIR OWN in exchange for goods. Later, enslaved Africans became part of the international trade network used extensively by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the Americas. By the 1480s Portuguese ships were transporting Africans for use as enslaved laborers on sugar plantations in the Cape Verde & Madeira islands. During those early years, the Portuguese generally purchased Africans who had been enslaved during tribal wars. Spanish conquistadors took enslaved Africans to the Caribbean after 1502, but Portuguese merchants still dominated the transatlantic slave trade for another century and a half, operating from their bases in the Congo-Angola area. The Dutch became the foremost traders of African slaves during parts of the 1600s, and in the following century English and French merchants controlled about half of the transatlantic slave trade, taking a large percentage of their human cargo from the region of West Africa between the Sénégal and Niger rivers. The English became involved with the Slave Trade starting in the mid to late 1600's and the pattern of Triangular Trade across the Atlantic was formed. Goods brought from England to Africa included iron products, cloth, trinkets and beads, copper, guns, & ammunition. Slaves were the most important 'commodity' sent from Africa due to the free labor needed for European [not American] expansion. At the time of the American Revolution, there was widespread support in the American colonies for prohibiting the importation of more slaves. After the Revolution, at the insistence of Southern states, Congress waited more than 2-decades before making the importation of slaves illegal. When Congress did so, in 1808, the law was enacted with little dissent. It should be noted that Great Britain did not outlaw Slave-trade in its territories until 1833. The countries directly responsible for the triangular slave trade are in Africa and Europe. If it's not obvious, then you are stupid, ignorant, or unwilling to face the facts.
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