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Say what? Wasn't that deed accomplished with the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863? And by the deaths of an estimated 350,000 Union soldiers during the American Civil War?
Weren't an estimated four million African-American slaves freed during and after that horrendous conflict in 1861-65?
America's population during the War Between the States was an estimated 32 million. It is now an estimated 274 million, no one of whom having lived prior to or during that conflict.
Most Americans alive today are descended from individuals who migrated to this country after the Civil War. What role did they or their ancestors play in American slavery? Absolutely none.
Do we and citizens of other Allied nations hold today's citizens of Germany, Japan and Italy responsible and accountable for the activities of their combatants during World War II? Of course not.
Apologize for yourself, Congress.(25 JUNE 2000)
