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
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,...

