https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...veholders.html
both McConnell and Obama were descendants of slave owners.
sounds like the media is butt hurt about McConnell not in favor of reparations.
I find the reparations idea rather ironic because it had a different outcome with the british experience.
Britain outlawed slavery in 1833. slave-owners were compensated for their loss of slaves. the slaves were never compensated. the slaves got their freedom, but got screwed out of any reparations.
not the case in U.S.; the slaves got their freedom, but slave owners and slaves got screwed out of any compensation.
Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
It was banned within the british empire by the Slave Trade Act of 1807. The 1833 law expanded the 1807 ban to include British territories as well.
Britain was promising freedom as early as 1776, the year isn't coincidental, to any American slave who would fight for the Crown.
I would imagine a different outcome here had slave owners chose not to secede. No, I'm not trying to inferring the civil war was fought over slavery, relax you hillbillies. I'm simply suggesting compensation may have been brought to the negotiating table in an effort to avoid war. Lincoln himself, said he'd allow slavery to remain intact if it would save the union. It likely was brought up.
Lincoln won the presidency without carrying a single southern state. The tarriffs being imposed on southern goods to make northerners more competitive also didn't help the issue. Those two issues had a bigger influence than slavery on the decision to secede.
Slaves absolutely got a raw deal. Many black folks today could use a little help. I'm not sure if reparations, in the form of cash, is the way to go, however.