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To: SunkenCiv

Reparations from Mexico?


3 posted on 02/01/2006 8:50:29 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: Mikey_1962
It would be nice to see similar research done on the teeth of remains of slaves held in the US, just to study whether slaves were imported directly from Africa, or bought from Caribbean slave markets. From the CSA constitution...
Section IX. 1. The importation of negroes of the African race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.

5 posted on 02/01/2006 8:55:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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To: Mikey_1962; SunkenCiv

Spain (under Ferdinand and Isabella) forbade the enslavement of Indians in the New World very early on, probably after various educated Indians were brought back to Spain by the religious orders that had educated them and revealed themselves to be the equal of any Spaniard.

Papal bulls also forbade slavery in general; all persons who were bought (usually from Arab slave traders) were essentially indentured servants, and had to be allowed to buy their freedom or manumission had to be allowed at the discretion of their owners (usually upon death, in their wills), and they had to be allowed to marry, have families and receive religious education. The Spanish accepted the Bulls and that is why you have complicated 16th-17th century paintings in Mexican museums showing the various degrees of lineage (European, Indian and African) that were used to classify people.

For some reason, the Portuguese completely ignored the Papal Bulls and were some of the worst slave traders and abusers of African slaves in the Western hemisphere, something that still leads to problems in Brazil, which has a heritage of resentment.


6 posted on 02/01/2006 9:03:42 AM PST by livius
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