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Guest editorial: Why municipalities should support federal climate action

Letters to the Editor for Thursday, March 24 Hendersonville Times-News Stolen labor from millions To the Editor: In a column (March 6,) the writer suggests that the labor of enslaved Africans was not valuable enough to be worthy of reparations. That is wrong. From the beginning of English colonization, the labor of enslaved Africans was so valuable that every loophole that might have gained anyone freedom was examined and closed. In 1662, the Virginia House of Burgesses made enslavement hereditary with a law that a child of an enslaved woman became a slave even if the father was an Englishman...