>>Slavery lasted in the United States for 250 years.
Slavery existed in the United States for 77 years.
June 1788 to December 1865.
Prior to 1788, the ratification of the Constitution, the United States of America, as it is today, did not exist.
Constitution prohibited the ending of slave importation for 20 years.
In 1808 the Congress outlawed the further importation of slaves
1861 the United States broke apart, beginning the Civil War.
1861 Lincoln signs the first draft of the Emaciation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the Confederate States of America, but not in the slave holding states of the Union. The final draft of the EP was signed in 1863.
December of 1865 the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified by Georgia, achieving the 2/3 majority needed, legally ending slavery.
77 years. Not 250. 77 years.
Before 1788, talk to England, France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Portugal. Then the government's of the 13 Original Colonies, each an independent territory.
Welfare 1935 - 84 years.
Federal Housing Act Section 8 1937 - 82 years.
Food Stamps 1964 - 55 years.
Racial Set Asides for Federal Contracts 1978 - 41 years.
Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Act, Title VII (racial set asides in education) 1964 - 55 years.
African Slaves made up 15% of the population of the United States in December of 1865.
African-Americans make up 13% of the population of the United States as of June 2019.
How long do we have to continue to pay for 77 years of slavery.
The answer, even if Reparations are granted, will be never.
As of 2016, according to the FBI, 30% of all rapes in the US are committed by Black men and 53% of all murders. Black men make up 6% of the US population.
The costs of Slavery has been repaid over and over and over, with money and with blood.
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