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Julius Caesar writes in his book, The Gallic Wars, about how his Roman army invaded Gaul, the area that is now central Europe, in the time around 60 BC. He tells how he enslaved a part of the population and sent some to Rome and retained others to serve his Roman army.
About 110 billion people have lived in all of history up until now. Ten thousand years ago, there were about 10 million alive, 2000 years ago, about 400 million, 900 years ago, about 500 million and in the year 1800, about 800 million, and today, about 6 billion.
Geometric progression shows that the number of our ancestors required to not have common ancestors very quickly becomes more than all the people who have ever lived. Just thirty-seven generations requires 137 billion ancestors, more than the 110 billion that have ever lived. Thirty-seven generations takes us back to about the year 900 when there were only 500 million people available. That means that we are the product of common ancestors. The odds are 274 to 1 that any person in the year 900 is one of our ancestors. As the geometric progression goes even further back, it becomes a mathematical certainty that anyone picked at random from about 2000 to 10,000 years ago is an ancestor of ours.
What this all means is that with the high number of slaves in the population in ancient times, just about every person on earth today will have had an ancestor who was a slave.
Martin is a common French name, and my paternal grandfather's immediate ancestors were from France, the area where Julius Caesar was gathering up slaves in 60 BC. As I've shown it's a mathematical certainty that some of those slaves were my ancestors.
So, if demanding reparations for our ancestors being slaves is a legitimate demand, I suppose that I have the right to demand that the current government in Rome pay me reparations because my ancestors were enslaved by Julius Caesar. Of course, every person on earth would then have the same right to demand reparations of some government, somewhere.
