"The call for reparations is, in many ways, a long part of the Black radical tradition. Prominent abolitionists like Frederick Douglass were not only proponents of the abolition of the institution of chattel slavery but also advocated for the United States to be held accountable for repairing the damages that stemmed from it."
"Of course, against the backdrop of the federal government giving away hundreds of millions of acres of stolen Indigenous land to White homesteaders, the formerly enslaved called for the land they and their ancestors tilled for so long, but the calls for reparations have always been about emotional repair as well as the recovery of material wealth."
#reparations #black-radical-tradition #national-ex-slave-mutual-bounty-and-pension-association #callie-house
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