From: suhak-AT-canada.com
Date: 30 Mar 2002 19:22:03 -0800
Subject: [low] slavery reparation-THX, Liz


Hi Liz,

THX for correcting me. I did not know what slavery ended in other countries.

I found a link (BBC) with dates re. slavery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9generic3.shtml

It is amazing (in an ironic sense), and ridiculous at the same time, to think that we are just 100 years away from old slavery-vs. new-slavery!

Suha

On Sat, 30 March 2002, Elizabeth DeLoughrey wrote:

> 
> >This bring us to another point, slavery in the US lasted the longest. So,
> someone can gather evidence and present a legal case. In many other
> countries, slavery, the old type, is difficult to gather/find evidence that
> someone benefited from it.
> 
> Suha,
> A quick correction. Slavery didn't last the longest in the US. The US
> abolished slavery after the Brits, but not before the Spanish or Portuguese,
> so that slavery was not abolished in PR until 1873, in Cuba 1886, and I
> think the latest date of all the Americas was Brazil, something ridiculously
> late, maybe 1898? This would raise the question about reparations in Brazil
> although I know nothing about the legal structures that might allow this. In
> fact, comparatively, the Caribbean and South America rec'd far more slaves
> than the U.S., with Brazil at the highest of all.
> 
> I think an underlying reason has also to do with a point Thornton and others
> have made: That in getting acknowledgement for the tremendous contribution
> made by African slaves to 'new world' and european economies, scholars
> tended to overemphasize African victimhood to the extent that one could not
> then logically hold west Africans accountable. I'm no historian, but I think
> given how important & precarious trading relations were between Africans and
> Europeans, there probably is at least some documentation as to which
> kingdoms were benefitting--from every part of the Atlantic. Liz
> 
> 
> 
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