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- 1. AMERICAN SLAVERY A history of legal slavery in the united states
- 2. THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM An estimated 10 to 12 million kidnapped Africans were transported and shipped via the middle passage to the “new world’
- 3. EFFECTS OF SLAVERY African americans continue to suffer from lack of wealth and economic power to this day in America, Racial injustice is motivted by unconscience bias in the African American community
- 4. HISTORICAL PRECEDENT Germany United Nations
- 5. ARE WE READY FOR REPERATIONS?
- 6. DATA & FACTS Back in 1979, white Americans earned an average hourly real wage of $19.62 compared to $16.07 for blacks, making for an 18.1 percent wage gap. While the gap narrowed in the late 1990s, it began to expand again in 2000. According to new research by the Economic Policy Institute, in 2015, the racial wage gap stood at 26.7 percent, with whites taking home an hourly real wage of $25.22 on average, compared to $18.49 for blacks