Reparations for Slavery: A ReaderRonald P. Salzberger, Mary Turck Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery in the United States. Unlike many other readers on such topics, this book includes a substantial number of essays designed to provide the entire discussion with an historical context by giving the reader a vivid sense of the injuries inflicted by slavery, its aftermath, and the continuing history of state-supported discrimination. |
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Contents
Why Reparations Slavery and Its Aftermath | 3 |
The Conditions of Slavery | 5 |
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 11 |
Frederick Douglass What to the Slave is the 4th of July? | 14 |
Restoring White Supremacy Jim Crow | 17 |
The Continuing Injuries of Slavery and Jim Crow | 29 |
Slaverys Insults The Continuing Nonmaterial Injuries of Slavery | 33 |
Early Reparations Initiatives | 59 |
Reparations for Slavery in Scholarly Writing | 141 |
Stephen Kershnar The Case against Reparations | 151 |
Underlying Questions of Responsibility and Entitlement | 163 |
Collective Responsibility Am I Responsible for the Misdeeds of Others? | 169 |
Samuel Scheffler Relationships and Responsibilities | 180 |
Historical Responsibility Are the Sins of the Fathers to Be Visited on Their GreatGreatGrandchildren? | 197 |
Jeremy Waldron Superseding Historic Injustice | 205 |
Janna Thompson Historical Obligations | 224 |
The Nineteenth Century | 61 |
Reparations Bill for the African Slaves in the United States The First Session Fortieth Congress | 64 |
Thaddeus Stevens Quoted Speaking to the US House of Representatives on Section 4 of H R 29 The 1867 Slave Reparation Bill | 65 |
The MidTwentieth Century | 69 |
James Forman The Black Manifesto1969 | 70 |
Hugo Bedau Compensatory justice and The Black Manifesto | 76 |
H R 40 IH 33 106th Congress 1st Session | 91 |
The Official record from Hansard of the Debate Initiated by Lord Gifford QC in the House of Lords of the British Parliament on 14th March 1996 C... | 96 |
The Contemporary Moral Debate over Restitution | 121 |
Reparations for Slavery in the Popular Press Reading 1 David Horowitz Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Black and Racist ... | 127 |
Ernest Allen Jr and Robert Chrisman Ten Reasons A Response to David Horowitz | 130 |
Janna Thompson Historical Injustice and Reparations Justifying Claims of Descendants | 236 |
Some Devilish Details | 261 |
Legal Matters Forum Making the Case for Racial Reparations Harpers Magazine | 263 |
Economic Calculations | 289 |
Dalton Conley Wealth Matters from Being Black Living in the Red | 290 |
Alternatives | 301 |
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness | 303 |
Bibliography | 329 |
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