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Speaker invokes United Nations, urges reparatory justice for transatlantic slave trade
Summary
Speaker 1, identified only in the transcript, called the Transatlantic slave trade "an indelible stain on the conscience of humanity" and urged nations to acknowledge historical harms and pursue reparatory justice grounded in international law.
Speaker 1, identified only in the transcript, called the Transatlantic slave trade "an indelible stain on the conscience of humanity" and urged nations to acknowledge historical harms and pursue reparatory justice grounded in international law.
"For more than 4 centuries, enslaved Africans were kidnapped and trafficked, dehumanized, abused, and exploited," Speaker 1 said, adding that the scale and cruelty of the trade are "uncomprehensible." The speaker said that the trade was enabled by insurers, bankers, shipping companies and legal systems and that those institutions amassed wealth "on the back of human suffering."
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