Black Americans Are Entitled To Reparations BASED On RACISM, Not Slavery! Social Share
EDITOR: Is there anyone alive today who did not descend from an ancestor that was enslaved? I highly doubt it. Slavery was a way of life in all parts of the globe throughout antiquity and it is still in operation today in some places. Some Americans who call themselves Foundational Black Americans (FBA) and Descendants of American Slaves (ADOS) have been demanding Reparations of Slavery from the government of the United States. However, these demands have not been taken seriously thus far, and truth be told, these demands are never going to be taken seriously because the claimants lack legal standing.
1780 (undated)
1 : 350000
Description
This is a beautifully engraved 1780 map of the island of Hispaniola or Saint Domingue, modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The map shows topographical features pictorially. Lakes, rivers and towns are marked and named, including Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. In the central part of the island is the town of Hinche (Hincha). This village, founded by Spanish settlers in 1704, was in an economically driven population boom when this map was engraved: it was a cattle town able to capitalize on selling beef to the neighboring French colony (Haiti) where it was more than seven times as expensive.
SamanáThe map shows the Baye de Samana, now known as a winter mating ground for humpback whales. Partially enclosing the bay, to the north, is the Island of Samaná: one of the many cartographic instances of a peninsula being incorrectly depicted as an island. This, in spite of mapmakers as venerable as Gastaldi, Ortelius, a