Reparation For Slavery

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Should there be any type of reparation for slavery?

Should slaves get paid for all the hard labor they had been through ?

Families don’t deserve that even in that time it wasn’t ok to make African

Americans work against their will. Not ok how they worked long period

hours and such short pay. Very hot days they had to pick cotton and got

hit with whips if out of place . The masters even sold family away

separating kids from their parents forever. I don’t get how come they got

to do that , not only does that make a lot of people angry still but that

slavery is even going on still incertain country’s even though weabolished

it in the United States . So that goes back to should there be any type of

reparation for slavery ?

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