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Essay Archive - Slavery Reparations Are Wrong
Slavery Reparations Are Wrong
Ladies and gentlemen; I don't believe that anyone in this chamber
would move to disagree with the idea that slavery was an atrocity,
committed from the depths of the darkest parts of the human sole.
Africans were seized from their native land, and sold into lives of
servitude into a foreign land. Indeed, it was a tragedy on such a scale
that cannot be measured nor quantified. And it is this very notion of
unquantifiable tragedy which speaks to the matter of reparations for
slavery. To be quite blunt, reparations, even if the....
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