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Reparations for slavery
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Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment needs to be made to the descendants of Sub-Saharan Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The most notable demands for reparations have been made in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Caribbean and African states from which slaves were taken have also made reparation demands.
Quotes
The German and English and French serf, the Italian and Russian serf, were, on emancipation, given definite rights in the land. Only the American Negro slave was emancipated without such rights and in the end this spelled for him the continuation of slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (1935), p. 611
See also
Black Lives Matter
Forty acres and a mule
H.R. 40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
I Have a Dream (MLK speech)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Post-racial America
Racism
Racism in the United States
Redistribution of income and wealth
Slavery
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