Should the government give reperations to the ancestors of plantions owners who had there slaves freed?

Question

After the Civil War, slavery was outlawed, and the plation owners slaves, which they paid for and which greatly contributed to produciton on the plantations were freed by the government and they were given no compensation. As a result many plantation owners lost there property (slaves) and went bankrupt, and the goverment never paid them back. I hear all this talk about blacks getting paid compensation for there ancestors being enslaved, but what about the land owners who had there property taken from them, shouldn't there ancestors who were robbed get something? How would you like it if the government stole your property and ruined you? What do you think?

Answer 1

HAHAHAHHAHAHA Love your sense of humor!!!

Answer 2

Man does this question ever ring bells that have been silent for a long while! We all need to ask the government why they steal from us and ruin people. Do you know there's no actual law making it legal to collect income tax from us on our wages? But they have been doing it since like 1914 or something. The government gets by with their monkey shines because we don't rage and holler about it! We need to kick most of the money-hungry trolls out of public office and elect common people. Only trouble is the common folks would soon get to be money-hungry trolls like the politicians are now. Our founding fathers knew this would happen. George Washington refused when they wanted to make him president for life, and only accepted two terms because he didn't want anyone to get too powerful over the American people. Now look at it!

Answer 3

First of all, most plantation owners did not go broke. There was sharecropping in which people had to work for basically no wages. It was no different than enslavement.

Secondly, the cotton gin was invented so the kidnappers did not have to hire (oops I mean force labor on) as many people.

The white people who lost their farms went bankrupt for investing in a losing war.

Answer 4

To be absolutely fair, the descendants of the plantation owners should be compensated for their losses, but it'll never happen because this country coddles the lobbyist minorities in great robes of swaddled silk.

Answer 5

Since the U.S. is supposedly a great melting pot or tossed salad or whatever it's called these days, why doesn't the government just give us all ten bucks and call it a day?

Answer 6

I think they should be given a free psychiatric examination to figure out where in the hell they would even think of a question like this....