I would take issue with discussing this in any court of law.
This subject is a subject to discuss as a seminar or as part of some round table discussion on C-Span.
To be in any sort of a court implies that someone somehow has legal liability for what happened hundreds of years ago.
And the liberals and our media would gloss over slavery which happened, even today, in other parts of the world, and focus on African slavery perpetrated by European peoples.
No thanks, I think this is a bad idea.
I think the idea is to determine who really needs to pay reparations.
As the article says:
The legal discovery that would accompany any slave reparations trial would have and make public that the Ottoman Empire kept “slave armies.” Note that we are now talking about Muslims or the ancestors of Muslims being responsible for not only the beginnings of slavery, but also for the word “slave” itself. Think of how much American students might have to be forced to learn.
The Dahomey nation rulers (now the African country of Benin) profited off the slave trade. In the 1840’s King Gezo said he would “do anything the British would want apart from giving up the slave trade.” We haven’t even touched on the number of African Americans who not only owned but also traded slaves.
I agree with you. I read the whole article, and many great points were made, but it should go NOWHERE near a court room - especially in today’s judiciary climate. WAY too many libs on the bench - and they would rule inadmissible a LOT of the information that would be critical to make a just case.
The Dahomey (now Benin) nation rulers profited off the slave trade. In the 1840s, King Gezo said he would “do anything the British would want apart from giving up the slave trade.” We haven’t even touched on the number of African-Americans who not only owned but also traded slaves. One of the more famous of the black plantation owners was Nicolas Metoyer, who along with his family owned over 200 slaves.
And how about the African-Americans who owned white slaves? Think this didn’t occur? In the late 1600s through early 1700s, black males were buying indentured servants (usually white) for their farms.