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There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people

History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate for slavery. But the money never went to those who suffered under the system, only those who profited.

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OPINION: Slave owners received reparations, not the enslaved

A professor at the University of Connecticut says that the U.S. government should utilize historic census records to locate and pay reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved Americans

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There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People

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There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People
The payments ran for a total of 122 years from 1825 to 1947, with the money going to more than 7,900 former slave owners and their descendants in France.
The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality.

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There was a time reparations were actually paid out - just not to formerly enslaved people

There was a time reparations were actually paid out - just not to formerly enslaved people
Thomas Craemer, University of Connecticut
Feb. 26, 2021
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Thomas Craemer, University of Connecticut
(THE CONVERSATION) The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality.
Yet whenever calls for reparations are made – as they are again now – opponents counter that it would be unfair to saddle a debt on those not personally responsible. In the words of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on Juneteenth – the day Black Americans celebrate as marking emancipation – in 2019, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”

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There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people

There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
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