Which part of Europe? I get the desire for deflection. But if you think pinning it on Europe somehow will absolve America from the repercussions of this you're quite naive. It will just create a precedent that eventually will turn towards the states.
England already bought slaves their freedoms well before slavery was abolished in America.
The vast majority of European nations had outlawed slavery well before the Americas....
So... why is it Europe's issue ?
1803 Denmark-Norway becomes the first country in Europe to ban the African slave trade, forbidding trading in slaves and ending the importation of slaves into Danish dominions. 1807 The British Parliament makes it illegal for British ships to transport slaves and for British colonies to import them.
Portugal was one of the first European countries to prohibit the entry of slaves, but also one of the last to abolish, in 1869, slavery in its colonies.
I don't understand why you think Europe should pay reparations and the americas shouldn't if you think reparations are legitimate?
Brazil abolished slavery in 1888.....
But it's somehow only Europe that should pay reparations?
Despite it being outlawed by the majority of Europe far before the Americas, south and north....
Without the abolition movement to stop the trade of slaves , slavery was as old as humanity itself. Slavery was the norm... regardless the culture. It was so normalised that even some of the greatest philosophers and forefather’s of democracy didn't think twice about slavery.
It was worldwide, it was the norm for all humanity. Untill the Abolitionists went against slavery and put a end to it. Pretty much every culture.... be it native American.. Asian Polynesian. European. African , Arabian etc ... slavery was the norm...
ditto all religions. Christianity. Islam. Hindu . Bhuddist . Ancient Greek. Rome. Egyptian . Celts. Etc etc etc. All of them accepted slavery as it was the norm.
Of course it wasn't all for humanitarian reasons, England used it as a club to reign in Portugal and brazil. As well as countless other smaller nations.
Nobody owes reparations imo. Bad shit happened in the past to countless ethnicities regardless of pigment, and unfortunately bad shit will happen again without a doubt.
Do you believe the sins of the past are the responsibility of the present? and reparations are legitimate ?
If so your pro reparations? For Europe
but no reparations owed by the Americas?
I fail to see how you can put it on the actual nation(s) who put a end to slavery yet absolve the nation's who maintained legitimate slavery for longer.