Source: MARCO SIMONCELLI / Getty On Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) voted on a resolution introduced by Ghana calling the trans-Atlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity." With the exceptions of Argentina, Israel and, shocker, the United States, 123 nations voted in favor of the resolution. According to the New York Times, the resolution also calls on the U.N.'s member nations to formally apologize for slavery and contribute to a reparations fund as "a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.