These men, women, and children were kidnapped from their homeland and shipped to the United States where they were bought and sold into slavery. They were forced to do hard labor for no pay or compensation. As awful and tragic as this part of American history was, should the living des

Reparation advocates feel that the U.S. Government and a handful of U.S. businesses should pay theses reparations but to obtain reparations from those who profited from slavery isn't that simple. To include all those responsible we would have to sue the descendants of all those Africans who hunted other Africans, usually from rival tribes, and took them to market on the coasts. "But the hard daily reality was this: The vast majority of Africans were captured and sold into slavery by Africans" (Hamill, 18 Aug. 2002).

cendants of these slaves be compensated for what happened more than 250 years ago? The slave reparation issue has been debated for many years and once again it is being brought to the forefront of today's political debates. There are many arguments for and against the issue but I believe that today's living descendants of American slaves should not receive reparations: There were too many groups involved to make only one group pay; those directly involved are no longer living; and we've thrown enough money at the pr

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