https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/09/15/publ ... rus-video/
...heartening.
The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837.
Together with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73), it authorized the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies in the amount of approximately £20 million for the freeing of slaves. Based on a government census of 1 August 1834, more than 40,000 awards to slave owners were issued. Since some of the payments were converted into 3.5% government annuities, they lasted until 2015. Most were sold and the money sent abroad for investment.
On April 17, 1825, the French king suddenly changed his mind. He issued a decree stating France would recognize Haitian independence but only at the price of 150 million francs – or around 10 times the amount the U.S. had paid for the Louisiana territory. The sum was meant to compensate the French colonists for their lost revenues from slavery.
Baron de Mackau, whom Charles X sent to deliver the ordinance, arrived in Haiti in July, accompanied by a squadron of 14 brigs of war carrying more than 500 cannons.
Rejection of the ordinance almost certainly meant war. This was not diplomacy. It was extortion.
With the threat of violence looming, on July 11, 1825, Boyer signed the fatal document, which stated, “The present inhabitants of the French part of St. Domingue shall pay … in five equal installments … the sum of 150,000,000 francs, destined to indemnify the former colonists.”
The Homestead act was signed by then -president Abraham Lincoln. The first person to file a claim was Daniel Freeman on May 20, 1862.
Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort. The field orders followed a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Radical Republican abolitionists Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens following disruptions to the institution of slavery provoked by the American Civil War. Many freed people believed, after being told by various political figures, that they had a right to own the land they had been forced to work as slaves and were eager to control their own property. Freed people widely expected to legally claim 40 acres of land. However, Abraham Lincoln's successor as president, Andrew Johnson, tried to reverse the intent of Sherman's wartime Order No. 15 and similar provisions included in the second Freedmen's Bureau bills.
Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction during the war and for a brief period thereafter. However, federal and state policy during the Reconstruction era emphasized wage labor, not land ownership, for black people.
Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners
Maximus wrote:Africans are not slaves and they are independent and liberated peoples.
The unfortunate reality is, most African countries are disorganized and regressive societies.
Look at Cyprus, Singapore, China and south Africa for example. In comparison they become independent states at roughly the same time and have managed to progress and provide a good standard of living for most of their citizens.
In comparison to that, Africans that migrated to first world developed countries and are now 3-4 generations deep with citizenship are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime and have "underprivileged" backgrounds.
it not always someone else fault and having a victim mentality wont help. They just need to get their act together.
Zenon33 wrote:Maximus wrote:Africans are not slaves and they are independent and liberated peoples.
The unfortunate reality is, most African countries are disorganized and regressive societies.
Look at Cyprus, Singapore, China and south Africa for example. In comparison they become independent states at roughly the same time and have managed to progress and provide a good standard of living for most of their citizens.
In comparison to that, Africans that migrated to first world developed countries and are now 3-4 generations deep with citizenship are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime and have "underprivileged" backgrounds.
it not always someone else fault and having a victim mentality wont help. They just need to get their act together.
My words too.
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