"Over 4 million Africans and their descendants were enslaved in the United States and its colonies alone from 1619 to 1865, and as a result, the United States was able to begin its grand place as the most prosperous country in the free world. Innumerable Africans died during the "middle passage" and while in slavery, which surpasses the number of those who lost their lives in the Jewish Holocaust. In fact, African Hebrews also lost their lives in the Jewish Holocaust.
It has been a controverted agenda for the United States and other countries to deny Reparations to descendants of Africans and those of Diaspora; not to compensate for their labor and the many losses as a result of their forced labor. More ignored facts are the long-term effects slavery and colonization has and still have on Africans and those of Diaspora since the time of the so-called emancipation unto today.
Many are most ignorant to the fact that the US Government paid Reparations to slave owners.
The results were a new kind of slavery whereas the slaves became indentured slaves caught in a vicious cycle of never earning enough to pay 'Mazza' for their freedom.
Many are most ignorant to the fact that the US Government paid Reparations to slave owners.
According to the NationalArchives and Records Administration, The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
paved the way to compensate slave owners for their “loyalty to the Union” and
for the loss of income incurred by freeing slaves.
"On April 16, 1862, President
Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia.
Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to a conclusion decades of agitation aimed at
ending what antislavery advocates called “the national shame” of slavery in the
nation’s capital. It provided for immediate emancipation, compensation to
former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave,
voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States,
and payments of up to $100 for each person choosing emigration.
Over the next 9 months, the Board
of Commissioners appointed to administer the act approved 930 petitions,
completely or in part, from former owners for the freedom of 2,989 former
slaves."
The results were a new kind of slavery whereas the slaves became indentured slaves caught in a vicious cycle of never earning enough to pay 'Mazza' for their freedom.
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(Previously written under the Blog title Why? - January2014)Honorable
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