Slavery is a horrific institution that has plagued human civilization for thousands of years. However, don’t tell this to the United Nations, for the intergovernmental agency created as a response to World War II, seems to think that the institution of slavery was only prevalent between the 15th and 18th centuries in trans-Atlantic form. On March 25, the U.N. passed a resolution rebuking the trans-Atlantic slave trade, calling for “healing and reparative justice.” The U.N. resolution categorized the enslavement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity.”

The resolution claimed that, “for more than 400 years, millions of people were stolen from Africa, put in shackles and shipped to the New World to toil in cotton fields and sugar and coffee plantations under scorching heat and the crack of the whip.”

The U.N. claimed it needs “reparative justice” for the sins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Yet, what the organization really needs is a history lesson. 

Did you all remember the African ancestral leaders who originated the slave trade, pillaging neighboring nations and enslaving their people?Or was this just another effort to blame white people for something? https://t.co/S893wzOrtw— Christopher Tremoglie (@chriswtremo) March 26, 2026

Did you all remember the African ancestral leaders who originated the slave trade, pillaging neighboring nations and enslaving their people?Or was this just another effort to blame white people for something? https://t.co/S893wzOrtw

The effort to pass the resolution was led by Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, who spoke........

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