Slavery is a horrific institution that has plagued human civilization for thousands of years. However, don’t tell this to the United Nations, for the intergovernmental agency created as a response to World War II, seems to think that the institution of slavery was only prevalent between the 15th and 18th centuries in trans-Atlantic form. On March 25, the U.N. passed a resolution rebuking the trans-Atlantic slave trade, calling for “healing and reparative justice.” The U.N. resolution categorized the enslavement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity.”

The resolution claimed that, “for more than 400 years, millions of people were stolen from Africa, put in shackles and shipped to the New World to toil in cotton fields and sugar and coffee plantations under scorching heat and the crack of the whip.”