If America begins paying restitute to the slave descendents, then why would America not pay for the child labor descendents? 

According to the Child Labor Public Education Project, Child Labor in U.S. History, “Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history.” 

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, children were forced into childhood occupations, one could argue, because the early American government did not provide welfare to the poverty stricken families.

There is historical evidence of about 2,000,000 American children working between 50 to 70 hours per week in 1810. Sometimes children of impoverished families were given to factory or mill owners.

Yes, it is unfortunate that the Federal American government permitted such conditions, however growing countries must learn how to be successful.

Sparked by the Great Depression, welfare became a federal responsibility in the 1930s. Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, and Supplemental Security Income became federal programs to assist low-income peoples. 

The American culture has grown to be successful through perseverance, because humans must gain moral wisdom through adversity. We the people could not learn to appreciate what our generations of people have provided for us, without understanding the mistakes of our historical past. 

Today’s generations of people should not have to pay for our ancestors “mistakes.” If America were to pay for dealing hardship on the people, than every human should be paying their self, because all people suffer whether it be through disease, starvation, forced labor, criminal injustice, or family immorality.

It was unjust to force the African American into labor however it is unjust to buy products from other countries who currently force labor upon their children. 

The land of the free has produced free African American people, through perseverance in America.

It is a shame that our slave capturing American ancestors did not detain all of the Africans, during the time of slavery. It is a shame, because there are abundant devastations today’s African people endure, which overall exceeds the African American’s hardships. 

The contraction of HIVs and AIDs, not to mention the orphaned children caused by it, has been growing in Africa at an alarming rate. Between starvation and lack of education, crime, and homelessness, the African American is much better off in America than his or her land of origin, Western Africa. 

How many African Americans would like to live in Western Africa today? It was not us who chose what nation we would be born into, therefore Americans distraught by the past need to consider where African Americans could be living if it were not for the toils of slavery.