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The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?
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The Confederacy and Slavery
People of all colors owned slaves, both as part of the atlantic slave trade and outside of it. The enlightenment imposed the concept of race on a practice that had been going on for centuries in order to justify that practice. After all, we need to remember that governments did not own slaves. Slave howners did. In fact, the us. Government fought a war to end slavery. How much should the descendants of the 400 thousand union soldiers who lost their lives fighting to free the slaves pay to the descendant of the slaves they freed? It's bizarre to suggest that human beings should inherit the outrage of the deeds of their parents.
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