Reparations for slavery debate in the United States
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Reparations for slavery is a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States, in consideration of the forced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to land-based compensation related to independence. The idea remains highly controversial and no broad consensus exists as to how it could be implemented. There have been similar calls for reparations from some Caribbean countries and elsewhere in the African diaspora, and some African countries have called for reparations to their states for the loss of their population.
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See also
- Forty acres and a mule
- History of slavery
- History of slavery in Asia
- History of slavery in the Muslim world
- History of slavery in the United States
- Legal remedy
- Liberia
- The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
- Reparation (legal)
- Reparations
- Reparations (website)
- Reparations for slavery
- Republic of New Afrika
- Restitution
- Slavery in contemporary Africa
- Slavery reparation scam
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