The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.
The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.
The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today’s institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.
Lots of americans would be very upset with you right now if they could read.
Americans fought a war over slavery, so obviously they very much weren’t all ok with it. Also, look at stats of where most slaves went. Brasil had the most, USA wasn’t in the top 5. Any number of slaves is too much though.
Lmao barely and then went back on it during “reconstruction”
I said lots not all
So the president felt more responsibility to his nation than to the slaves, at a time where slavery was much less frowned upon than today. I have a hard time retroactively faulting him for that. If he did the right thing for the wrong reasons, is it not still the right thing to do?
The war was not fought over slavery. That was only a convenient add-on. The US south was the primary party benefiting from slavery and the north wasn’t. Therefore it was easy for the North to tack that on the list.
While I don’t see it as a bad thing, it was certainly not the primary motivator or reason the civil war was fought. Also it took quite a while after the civil war to actually abolish slavery and even now there are have things like forced prison labor which is primarily done by black men whose neighborhoods are overpoliced.
It was not a primary factor for the north. For the south, slavery was the single most important issue for fighting this war.
Can’t you see how this story doesn’t make sense? Slavery already existed. So if the North didn’t care about slavery, then why would the South need to fight for it?
Brother. Don’t take it up with me, take it up the politicians of the south who named slavery as the number one issue for seceding and going to war. The north did not want an expansion of slavery, for the south the expansion of slavery was essential. And with Lincoln, there was a president in the white House, who at least tacitly supported the abolition of slavery before the war.
The war was fought over slavery according to the South’s constitution.
You quoted the wrong side, I suggest that you correct this mistake in the future.
The statement that “the war was not fought over slavery” is a falsehood according to history. It’s not an obscure fact, you can read their constitution at any time. Educate yourself, please, you make me wince in embarrassment
That’s weird, Abe just said that he didn’t really care about slavery, so why was there a war then?
oh a lot of americans on lemmy are already very upset lmao