Mr. J. South is certainly not a lawyer, at least not a learned one.  As has 
been made clear in the reparations debate, to gain reparations from 
corporate entities known to have profited from slavery, etc., you have to 
trace a line of title from the antebellum entity, through all its subsequent 
incarnations, to a present entity with assets.  Thus, the legal-economic 
force of reparations suits within the American economy:  from company A, 
through corporations A-C, to corporation D with billions in assets.

To do this for Africa, you would first have to identify the African entity 
that captured and sold other Africans to European and American traders.  You 
would then have to trace those state-like entities through various 
incarnations through the 18th and 19th centuries, to modern African states 
and corporations, societies, and state-entities within those modern states. 
And--here is the rub--except for Ethiopia and Liberia--that line of title 
would pass through a series of European colonizing states.

Good luck in suing Great Britain for reparations for Akan slaving.

Harold S. Forsythe
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>I think America should demand reparations for slavery from the African
> states involved in the trade.
>
> Feel free to forward this to Jesse Jackson and/or other activists who
> believe in the slave reparation concept.
>
> J South
>
>
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