Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: "Science's Debt to the Slave Trade"

chidi, most people in a position to make reparations would still consider it Crimes against Humanities.

laws of the past are irrelevant nowadays. we aren't considering if it was illegal. it was presumably legal to put the japanese in camps during wwII, but reparations have been made for it.

similarly, maybe it was legal under german law to commit genocide, including what was done to the herero, but new days and new thinking now consider it criminal.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 4:59:39 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Article: "Science's Debt to the Slave Trade"

 

Glory,
If it was considered legal then, it couldn't have also been considered as "human trafficking" in the illegal sense now.

It could however, be considered "despicable" by moralists like you and l.

Its legal status then, methinks, makes it almost impossible now for any claims of reparations and/or apology to pull through.

CAO.

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