Reparations for slavery

Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment needs to be made to the descendants of 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