Slavery, Congressional Remedies H.R.40

Resolution calling upon the Congress of the United States to pass H.R. 40, introduced by Reprsentative John Conyers Jr., of Michigan, during the 106th Congress (January 6, 1999), a bill which asks the Government of the United States "to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, [and] subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes."