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

  • Written by Thomas Craemer, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved peopleNo guessing who in this 1864 depiction may have been compensated after slavery ended.API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

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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