| |
| |
| Foreword | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| History and Reparations | |
| |
| |
| The African American Warrant for Reparations: The Crime of European Enslavement of Africans and Its Consequences | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | |
| |
| |
| |
| Excerpt from Black Exodus: The Ex-Slave Pension Movement Reader | |
| |
| |
| |
| Restitution as a Precondition of Reconciliation: Native Hawaiians and Indigenous Human Rights | |
| |
| |
| |
| And the Earth Moved: Stealing Black Land in the United States | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations and the Law | |
| |
| |
| Reparations for the Descendants of American Slaves Under International Law | |
| |
| |
| |
| Does America Owe a Debt to the Descendants of Its Slaves? | |
| |
| |
| Many Billions Gone: Is It Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations? | |
| |
| |
| |
| Slave Taxes | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reflections on Homer Plessy and Reparations | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Voices for and Against Reparations | |
| |
| |
| Presumed Victims | |
| |
| |
| |
| Debt of Honor | |
| |
| |
| |
| Against Reparations | |
| |
| |
| |
| ... Or a Childish Illusion of Justice?: Reparations Enshrine Victimhood, Dishonoring Our Ancestors | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations and Grassroots Organizing | |
| |
| |
| The National Black United Front and the Reparations Movement | |
| |
| |
| |
| The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA): Its Creation and Contribution to the Reparations Movement | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Popularization of the International Demand for Reparations for African People | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations and Intervention | |
| |
| |
| Debtor's Prison: Facing History and Its Consequences | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations and Health Care for African Americans: Repairing the Damage from the Legacy of Slavery | |
| |
| |
| |
| The United States' Debt Owed to Black People | |
| |
| |
| |
| Riding the Reparations Bandwagon | |
| |
| |
| |
| Reparations + Education = The Pass to Freedom | |
| |
| |
| |
| Interview with Chester and Timothy Hurdle, Barbara Ratliffe, and Ina Hurdle-McGee, October 29, 2002 | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| Historical Documents | |
| |
| |
| Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution | |
| |
| |
| In the Field: Savannah, Georgia, Special Field Orders, No. 15, January 16, 1865 | |
| |
| |
| |
| A Bill Introduced by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, H.R. 29, 40th Congress, 1st Session, March 11, 1867: A Plan for Confiscation | |
| |
| |
| Congressman John Conyers's (D-MI) Bill for a Study of the Impact of Slavery on African Americans, HR40IH, 105th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 40 | |
| |
| |
| The Dakar Declaration: African Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Dakar, 22-24 January 2001 | |
| |
| |
| Farmer-Paellmann v. FleetBoston, Aetna Inc., CSX | |
| |
| |
| |
| Current Status and Future Directions of the Reparations Movement | |
| |
| |
| Current Legal Status of Reparations, Strategies of the National Black United Front, the Mississippi Model, What's Next in the Reparations Movement | |
| |
| |
| |
| Notes | |
| |
| |
| Index | |