The partnership between the 55-member African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries will aim to intensify pressure on former slave-owning nations to engage with the reparations movement.
Delegates also announced the establishment of a global fund based in Africa aiming to accelerate the campaign.
Let’s say you’re a member of village A, close to village B who you are competing with for resources. Tensions rise, conflict occurs and your village happens to win. Women, children, and a couple of men from village B are at your mercy. Will you:
Remember, the outcome of this choice affects the lives of your friends and family you have known for your entire life.
I also feel like this blunts how it probably actually went down.
I have a feeling it was more like: a ship arrives at village A.
The ship offers salt and beads for trade.
The chief wants to be adorned in beads and tastier food so he sells off the members of his tribe he likes least.
Over time, he runs out of extra people to sell for beads and salt so he sends his people to start enslaving neighboring tribes.