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Thread ID: 12948 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-03-31
2004-03-31 06:22 | User Profile
Slave Descendants File $1B Lawsuit :yawn:
(link: [url]http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V1203.AP-Slave-Reparatio.html[/url])
NEW YORK (AP)--Descendants of slaves filed a $1 billion lawsuit Monday against U.S. and British corporations, accusing them of profiting by committing genocide against their ancestors.
Lawyers for the eight plaintiffs said the complaint was the first slave reparations lawsuit to use DNA to link the plaintiffs to Africans who suffered atrocities during the slave trade.
The suit filed in federal court in Manhattan accuses Lloyd's of London, FleetBoston and R.J. Reynolds of "aiding and abetting the commission of genocide" by allegedly financing and insuring the ships that delivered slaves to tobacco plantations in the United States.
The defendants "have destroyed our national and ethnic identity," one of the plaintiffs, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, said at a news conference announcing the suit.
DNA testing has made a "direct connection" between Farmer-Paellmann and the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, whose people "were kidnapped, tortured and shipped in chains to the United States,'' the suit said.
Scientific evidence also has linked the other plaintiffs to tribes in Niger and Gambia, the suit said.
Ellen Matthews, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds, said the company had not received a copy of the suit. Calls to the other defendants were not immediately returned.
In January, a federal judge in Chicago threw out a similar lawsuit brought by descendants of slaves.
*AP-NY-03-29-04 1817EST
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2004-03-31 14:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kurt]
DNA testing has made a "direct connection" between Farmer-Paellmann and the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, whose people "were kidnapped, tortured and shipped in chains to the United States,'' the suit said.
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Where they became the wealthiest group of negroes in the world. Send them all back to Sierra Leone where they can hack each other to pieces with machetes. :yawn:
2004-03-31 15:17 | User Profile
Invest heavily in Liquour stores, Lotteries and gaudy jewelry.
We'll have 75% of the loot back by nightfall.
2004-03-31 16:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=naBaron]Invest heavily in Liquour stores, Lotteries and gaudy jewelry.
We'll have 75% of the loot back by nightfall.[/QUOTE]
Well people, the blacks were indeed slaves to the white man in the USA and I believe that they deserve a hell of a lot more than the 4 to 7 billions that we are giving the Jews every year.
I don't know if you know it but the Jews were the biggest slave traders in the world, if the blacks should sue anyone in the USA it should be the Jews.
Do we have a slave museum in the USA?, I don't think so, and yet we have the so called "holocaust" museums for foreigners who were killed in a foreign country by foreign people.
I am against giving money to anyone for anything but if anyone deserve it then that would be the blacks who were the slaves and not the Jews who are the Leeches.
2004-03-31 19:46 | User Profile
Stealing is in their blood.
2004-03-31 22:21 | User Profile
I have read much concerning slavery but have been disappointed in not finding any mention of free blacks who owned slaves. The subject was mentioned in American Heritage Feb/Mar 1993 (vol 441 under the title "Selling Poor Steven" beginning on page 90. Citing the official U.S. Census of 1830, there were 3775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr. Anthony Johnson, of Northhampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. This is a part of Virginia's history which deserves attention.
The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women
owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into
slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who
leased their slaves to plantation owners. Most libraries carry back
issues of American Heritage.
Another interest book on the same subject is FREE NEGRO
OWNERS OF SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES 1830, by the
noted black historian, Carter C. Woodson. This book lists the
names and addresses of free blacks who owned slaves. Among
them is one George C. Washington, of Washington, D.C.