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There’s a Long History of Reparations—for White Enslavers

‘COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION ACT”
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Slave-trading nations including the United States paid off enslavers for their “loss of services” and even billed Haiti, with interest, for claiming liberté, égalité, fraternité.

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