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Slave Reparations

Should descendants of Africans who were enslaved receive compensation Should descendants of Africans who were enslaved receive compensation? Write your response in your notebook.

What are slave reparations? Compensation given to descendants of those individuals who were enslaved. Could be monetary or land. Land reparations (40 acres) were actually given to about 40,000 freed slaves after the end of the Civil War but then the land was given back to the original owners after Lincoln was assassinated.

Why wasn’t the issue revisited? Segregation, Jim Crow laws, creation of organizations like the KKK prevented slave reparations from reentering the conversation. 150+ years after the Civil War has only complicated the matter. Nearly 10 generations have passed Profit from slavery wasn’t limited to the South Efforts had been made to stop the trade of slaves Does modern society still benefit from the importation and enslavement of Africans starting almost 400 years ago? Governments that were in charge/powerful then are no longer Private institutions were involved

What could reparations be? Monetary Free education Free medical care Free legal services Free financial aid Land Community rehabilitations

But really? Have we ever done this for anyone? Native Americans with the land of their reservations and compensations for land lost Japanese-American internment prisoners were provided $20,000 for each survivor Germany has made reparations to survivors of the Holocaust

So why not? A very small percentage of society perpetrated the slave trade: 4.8% of southern whites. Those whose ancestors already made sacrifices to end slavery (soldiers in the Union Army, for example) would be forced to pay taxes to fund reparations By giving land to African-Americans, it further disenfranchises Native Americans who were originally forced from those lands by colonizers. Identifying the levels of victimization and fair amounts for reparations would be nearly impossible. Until the 13th Amendment – it was not illegal. Nor did the current US government exist until 1788 (180 years after the trade began)