Slavery and Reparation Due Reparation is a well established, long-standing principle of international law. It is payment for a debt owed for a wrong done. Historians have well established and documented that African-Americans has been wronged. Of the estimated 10 million Africans brought to the Americas by the slave trade, about 430,000 came to what is now the United States. Black Slaves were brought from their African homelands by force. These captured Africans some kings and queens were chained, two by two, left leg to right leg like animals, crowded into the holds of slave ships for their passage across the Atlantic Ocean. Once o