Slavery Today
Those most loudly demanding reparations for past slavery are strangely silent regarding present-day slavery.
TIME Magazine reported January 18, 2010: "Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history."
In the early days of the United States, arguing before the Supreme Court to free slaves of the Amistad ship, John Quincy Adams stated: "The moment you come to the Declaration of Independence, that every man has a right to life and liberty, an inalienable right, this case is decided. I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men than this Declaration."
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