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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
Several 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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