The Maafa - Page 73

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Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement. 

 

The fact that the delegation from the United States walked out of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in August of 2001, a conference that declared American chattel slavery as a 'crime against humanity,' only served to highlight America's refusal to acknowledge this period in her own past.