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The African Holocaust: Should Europe Pay Reparations To Africa For Colonialism And Slavery?, Ryan M. Spitzer
The African Holocaust: Should Europe Pay Reparations To Africa For Colonialism And Slavery?, Ryan M. Spitzer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
For many people of European descent, slavery is little more than an unpleasant memory of a bygone and distant era, largely remembered more for the glory of empires lost and faded dreams of conquest and exploration. For many Africans and African Americans, however, slavery remains an unhealed wound that is frequently, if not constantly, reopened by feelings of continued oppression, manipulation, and discrimination. These disparate views clashed most recently at the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa in September of 2001.
Inspired by the U.N. Conference in Durban, this Note analyzes the potential for reparations between …