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From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promises

  • Written by John Torpey, Presidential Professor of Sociology and History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promisesSeveral 2020 presidential candidates have called for reparations for slavery in the U.S.AP Photo/Douglas Healey

Does the United States owe descendants of slaves reparations?

It’s a question being asked more frequently of Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination. Many have expressedvarying degrees of support for reparations,...

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