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If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slavery

  • Written by Bernd Reiter, Professor, University of South Florida
If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slaverySlavery is not so far removed. Anderson and Minerva Edwards met in the 1860s as enslaved laborers in Texas, had 16 children and lived into their 90s in a cabin a few miles from the plantations they once worked. They are photographed here in 1937.U.S. Library of Congress

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