Reparations for slavery

The institution of slavery denied African-Americans the economic, educational, political and social opportunities for nearly 250 years, which relegated them to second class citizenship status. The free labor of African-Americans was part of the economic engine that made the United States today’s richest country in the world. There is no monetary compensation that could repair the psychological and economic damages Black people suffered as a result of slavery and the systematic racism instituted…

Haiti being that it is the only case of a nation being forged out of a courageous and successful slave revolution, “it was also the first modern state founded by blacks, the first to abolish slavery and remains the only state founded and sustained by those who were enslaved who won their freedom by force of arms” (Phillips, pp. 3-7). Prior to Haiti’s liberation it led the world in the production of sugar, coffee, rum, cotton and indigo … this made Haiti the world’s richest colony and the busiest…

Slavery forever altered the world and still affects the African American community today. The suffering that these human beings endured left its mark on their psyches, which influenced upward mobility and status in the hierarchy. While the chattel slavery may no longer physically exist, the aftermath continues to linger. An idea of what slaves endured mentally was passed down through the generations, as well as prejudices and discriminations against slaves and their African American descendants.…

began including slave imagery on everything they could sell including textiles, ceramics, fans, prints, and shop signs until the idea of slave-owning became commonplace; becoming commonplace made slavery acceptable. Moreover, Catherine Molineux explains in Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain that these slaves were fetishized to the point of becoming popular art, “inoculating the general public from the responsibilities of slave ownership as artists turned…

On February 1, 1865 the 13th amendment which abolished slavery was added to the United States Constitution. In April of the same year the Civil War ended and America began to recover from the war. While slavery had been abolished, freed slaves had a long road ahead of them. Prejudice and discrimination still had a major hold on society all throughout the United States. The federal government could have done much more than it did to help former slaves in the aftermath of the Civil War. “I feels…

With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. Frederick Douglass, What to a slave is the fourth of July. I thought what better way to start this paper then with a quote from Mr. Douglass, who states it best. I was astonished and amaze at what great strides and strength Mr. Douglass took to stand before a crowd of white men and women…

We Are People Human trafficking is today’s version of slavery. Victims are forced into labor, prostitution, and other exploitations. In 2007 three brothers conspired together to traffick women from Mexico to New York, Queens. The brothers threatened, assaulted, and psychological coerced the young women and minors into prostitution. These men were committed to sex trafficking that one of the brother, Victor Leonel Estrada- Tepal, placed his wife into their sex trafficking. Victor Leonel Estrada-…

What many people don’t understand from that point was the real reason behind the revolution and people who started which is will have a long impact in the political system of Haiti. During the time of slavery, the slaves were more or less willing to accept their new ways of life, sometimes they coupled with their masters and from that come out a new category, the mulattoes (Arthur 1999, 19). Those were the free men, they were given land but they couldn’t…

One of them being because of how slavery affected the economy. One article points out that slaves were the nation’s economy. ¨most slaves worked on southern agricultural plantations that produced cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco, and other crops. These crops made the United States a wealthy…

used as slaves to build this country. The US Federal Government ought to pay reparations to African Americans who can prove relations to slaves. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “ought” as an obligation. Thus, reparations should be an obligation by the USFG to the descendants of slaves for 3 main reasons: First, for the suffering of African Americans, Secondly, a well formulated plan to go about paying such reparations and thirdly, executing said plan which would result in a multitude of…