[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 22251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   ACKNOWLEDGING AFRICAN DESCENDANTS OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

  The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 175) acknowledging African 
descendants of the transatlantic slave trade in all of the Americas 
with an emphasis on descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, 
recognizing the injustices suffered by these African descendants, and 
recommending the United States and the international community work to 
improve the situation of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America 
and the Caribbean was considered and agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.

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