The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of perpetrating the most nefarious crime in history. Of course, anyone with even an elementary grasp of history is aware that slavery was a near-universal institution practiced by people of every race and creed in every part of the world, going back to the first tribal societies. Every ancient empire across the globe put its enemies into bondage. There were more slaves in the “birthplace of democracy,” Athens, than free citizens. An engraving from the 1830s of Arab slave-traders throwing slaves overboard to avoid penalties imposed by the British Empire on slave traders. (Hulton Archive/Getty) Indeed, Africans were victims of Arab slave traders who engaged in the longest and most brutal campaign of human bondage known to man, lasting somewhere from around 1,300 years from the 7th to the 20th century. The bustling central West African marketplace for human beings was up and running until 1873, when the British forced the local sultan to close it. The East...