¶ … President Bush's admission in Senegal that the United States was mindful of the past wrongs it had committed in enslaving stolen people from Africa, Carrillo (2003) explores the possible gains for the reparations movement.
However, Carrillo does more than simply focus on the "residual value" gained by the reparations movement from what she terms as a slip on President Bush's part. For, she also takes great pains to place in context the significance of Goree Island's notorious "Door of No Return." Carrillo achieves this through descriptions that bring alive the horrors of a place that had witnessed, "human beings ... delivered and sorted and weighed and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return." Indeed, Carrillo is unsparing in her efforts to describe the anguish suffered by slaves in societies that prospered by their unpaid labor, while remaining indifferent to their plight.
Interestingly, Carrillo's article can be directly correlated to Robinson's The Debt since the latter, too, focuses on the massive injustice of defrauding "the laborer of his hire." Robinson drives home his point through the simple device of showcasing a letter written by Jourdon Anderson, an ex-slave, in the year 1865. In his letter, Anderson asks his former owner to recompense his family for years of unpaid labor: " ... our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars .... If you fail to pay us for our faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith...
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