EVERY single family in northern states during the Civil War
who lost a family member fighting for the Union should be entitled to reparations from the BLACK FAMILIES and Peoples and their descendants who were made free at the cost of many non-slaveholding people in the North.
I think it only fair if the Black people today can claim that they are entitled to free money because some distant relative 400 years ago and longer was enslaved in the South and yet gained their freedom by the blood and lives of Northern Soldiers and families.
The VAST Majority of slaves were not killed nor lost their lives. MANY if not most had a fairly good living condition if they had good owners.
That said, who enslaved these people from Africa?
Nobody seems to want to bring that out into the light?
It was other BLACKS who captured these people in Africa and then sold them to the black slave traders who boated them to the US for profits.
The very thought of this instution turns my stomach and is unfathomable but much of the entire world was like this in ages past.. As Zim points out in his post there is still a lot of slave practices going on in the world today...
So I think every Union soldiers family is entitled to reparations from the BLAcks here.
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