Monday, May 18, 2020

The Slavery Of African Americans - 1207 Words

There is no denying that the period of time where slavery was legal in America was a dark time that all wish was expunged from the nation’s history. Ever since the end of WWII came around and Japanese and victims of the Holocaust started to receive reparations for the ordeals then endeavored. This launched a proposal that the descendants of the enslaved people in the United States would be given some type of compensation. The form of compensation varies from individual monetary payments to land-based payment. Although the American enslavement of African Americans was unjust, the American has undergone new government and the new one should not be held responsible for the actions of the previous. Although reparations to some might seem like†¦show more content†¦Thus further explains that the bloodlines of the descendants are corrupted and too hard to trace for pursuing compensation. Even though in today’s day and age slavery is considered a crime against humanity, it was not always so. Since at the time acts of slavery were being committed it was not a crime, the current US government should have no legal obligation to compensate these descendants. Many legal standpoints arise at the argument of restitution, another being that the U.S government that is currently in use did not exist before the ratification of the Thirteenth amendment. The current U.S. government inherited the institution of slavery, and cannot be held legally liable for the enslavement of Africans by Europeans prior to that time (Reparations of Slavery n.d.). David Horowitz argues that there is no definitive group responsible for slavery, Africans themselves were responsible for a lot of the slave trade, and there were about 3,000 black slave owners in the U.S. David simply puts it into terms that the American government should not have to pay and if they did have to otherworldly co untries would have to as well. This statement from the article points out that the Europeans enslaved the Africans and brought them to America. The U.S government itself did no such thing, although they prolonged it they eventually ceased slavery and made right

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