Should Africa receive reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

Question

Should Britian compensate Africa for its part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade?

King: interesting point of view. Your source, please. I'd like to read it.

Answer 1

What would be the precedent for such reparations?
Germany giving reparation to the Jews?

If Britian should pay, so should the U.S., Brazil, West Indies, Middle East, India, Portugal, and North Africa.

Strange that a country should be paying itself for an atrocity perpetrated on itself.

Answer 2

My greatest pet peeve is when white try to justify slavery by saying that Africans sold their own people into slavery. Did the Africans hang them, beat them, take their children, and sell them like live stock, no. That is why they attempted to stop sending slaves. Then white europeans and americans started kidnapping Africans and forcing them into slavery.

As far as the question, how would you determine the amount owed to these decendents of slaves. I feel the greatest reparations is for whites to leave the continent on Africa and say out of African affairs.

Answer 3

They shoud go sue themselves as they were selling those they didn't like or conquered tribes to Britain, America, Spain, Portugal, The Dutch and France. Africans were major players in selling slaves and still are! They became a Bankrupt people as a result and became the colonies of those they were selling slaves to! Now, look at them broke, busted and disgusted. They can't blame anybody but themselves. Reparations belong to the decendants of those sold!

Answer 4

For transporting slaves that were caught and traded by other Africans....HELL NO.

Answer 5

no. africans by and large sold their own people. slavery is actualy more prolific today than it was then. there are more slaves in the world now than there was back in those days. read up on it and it will scare you.