In the u.s very few people owned slaves. probably 90% of the population didnt own a slave for the 50 years or so before it was abolished. Some countries have servants (slaves) to this day and they do the house work and dont get paid anything. also, the monetary system was very primitive. i can only imagine what some countries were like for workers, probably got paid with a basket of fruit.
Even paid workers, regardless of the color, what would they have paid them in the 1700's? thirty cents and hour, if they were lucky. i wouldnt be surpirised if they even paid workers a nickle an hour. Minimum wage in u.s was, up until a few years ago, around $4.00 an hour.
Here are your reparations:
360,222 Union dead in the US Civil War.
the net lives destroyed is still several million in the red.
In the u.s very few people owned slaves.
30 cents was alot of money in the 1700's.
He means many more slaves were killed, but whatever, what's a life worth? 360,000 people is nothing to laugh at.
Should countries that benefited from slavery compensate the descendents of slaves?
No. But my ancestors are from Carthage, and Rome should better pay a reparations for the destruction or I will be MAD!!!!
Who said I was laughing at that - certainly not ME! I simply pointed out his lack of knowledge about history. Even counting slaves, he has NO chance of proving his claim of "MILLIONS." (He always exaggerates *everything*.)
Should countries that benefited from slavery compensate the descendents of slaves?
why don't you make a thread about slavery that occurs now in Africa and around the world ? rather than one about something that happened before any of us were alive.
The people alive today aren't slaves, and none of the people responsible for slavery hundreds of years ago are alive anymore...
No. But my ancestors are from Carthage, and Rome should better pay a reparations for the destruction or I will be MAD!!!!