Originally posted by vetran
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When the last person whose remembers having had a living ancestor who remembered and suffered through the event dies, then I think it's over. So that'd be, what?, 3 generations?.
Matilda McCrear died in 1940 in the US, and she was slave traded from Africa. Her grandson was 3 when she died, so perhaps has some memory of her. If so, when he dies then the US slave trade is definitely historical - perhaps as long as 170 years for some events, less for others. The holocaust would then become an historical event in 95 years time.
Interestingly, she tried to claim compensation for the slavery in the 1930s - but naturally as a black women in Alabama, her case was dismissed. Of course, she was a direct victim of the crime.
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