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This 10 page paper considers the issue of whether or not remunerations should be paid to Africa to redress the evils of slavery. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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for slaves. This paper examines the subject in detail. Discussion We might think that the need to pay Africa for centuries of suffering is self-evident, but there are many aspects
to the issue that need to be considered, including whether or not its even possible to mitigate such suffering with money. Its also something of a puzzle as to whom
such money should be paid, and why the descendants of the descendants of slaveholders should pay anything at all to the descendants of the descendants of slaves. In a UN
conference in September 2001, African bureaucrats made plans to "sue the West for trillions in reparation payments for slavery" (White, 2001, p. 56). White tells us that these same bureaucrats
"warmed up for the exercise last month by dumping the United States from the UN Human Rights Commission" and then replacing it with Sudan, a nation where for years the
rulers, Arab Muslims, have been "enslaving, killing and raping black Christians and animists" (White, 2001, p. 56). He suggests that the "Sudanese terror," along with "a resurgence of slavery in
West Africa" means that we should look more closely at the claim that "slavery constituted a white attack upon blacks" (White, 2001, p. 56). This idea is widely accepted in
the West, but White suggests it should be examined closely, not automatically given credence (White, 2001). He also suggests that we need to consider the way in which society has
changed over the centuries before we agree to this suggestion. "[M]aking people into property is viewed today as a despicable crime-but our ancestors, both black and white, would have disagreed
with us" (White, 2001, p. 56). He reminds us that English sailors kidnapped a Dutch boy and sold him in Maryland; and that in the U.S. in the 1800s, freed
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