Reparations for slavery

Slavery Reparations: A Call For Justice The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently, President John Degioia of Georgetown University took a lead to come to terms with their involvement with the merchandise and enslavement of Africans. President Degioia is offering financial help in education and other reparations administered to the…

Should there be any type of reparation for slavery? Should slaves get paid for all the hard labor they had been through ? Families don’t deserve that even in that time it wasn’t ok to make African Americans work against their will. Not ok how they worked long period hours and such short pay. Very hot days they had to pick cotton and got hit with whips if out of place . The masters even sold family away separating kids from their parents forever. I don’t get how come they got to do…

Introduction Slavery was one of the most influential institutions in United States history, and has relevance today because of the lack of compensation provided to slaves after the Civil War. This is an exceedingly complex issue which has caused debate over the possibility of reparations for those descended from slaves. The demand for reparations has emerged at many points in American history. The issue first arose shortly after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863…

I think that Americans should not pay reparations to the descendants of slave and these are my reasons as to why. First off it would be hard to trace down the descendant. Secondly, no amount of money can pay off what the slaves have been through. And finally, if they pay the descendants the money, they would not appreciate to money as much as the slaves would have. I believe that just because you're “black” and live in America, does not make you a descendant of a slave. After slavery, you…

Reparations can be defined as, according to the oxford dictionary, the action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged. Taking that into consideration, slavery reparations would be providing assistance monetary or not, to countries or people who have been wrongly affected by slavery. Many countries believe that they are owed reparations due to the harm the European countries inflicted during the slave trade. Focusing…

Inhumanity is one crucial reason African Americans should receive reparations for slavery. According to the article Black Peoples Of America - Slave Punishments “Owners could do whatever they liked with their slaves”. Slaves were doing everything their master asked. Consequently, their work was only beneficial to their master and slaves did not receive any revenue from their master for the work they completed. Furthermore, the article Black Then Discovering Our History expresses “The men would…

In “The Case of Reparations” Ta-Nehisi Coates goes over the legacy of slavery, discrimination, segregation, and the branches of it such as the times of Jim Crow and the countless unfavorable situations of African Americans encounter during that time. He emphasized the biased real estate agents of the 1960s to be more specific in North Lawndale, Chicago which follows the journey of Clyde Ross. Coates used Clyde Ross to set a foundation for his essay that tells a story of the society and…

Slavery had always been a controversial argument. Slavery is a very hard thing for all people who had to deal with it, also it is especially hard for children to find a solution to the cause of it; even though, they are trying to be strong, they still cannot run away from it. Slavery is the cause of many things, such as discrimination and low expectation of society to African-American. For instant, in the article “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, expresses the difficulty that…

To what extent can reparations affect the quality of life for African Americans? In the present paper a clear link will be made as to how segregation and slavery have caused an increased poverty rate in African Americans now; as well as analysing previous historical instances of reparations and how other instances of reparations for slavery set a precedent for reparations for African Americans. There will also be mention of past historical precedent and how, when reparations were given prior,…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Atlantic article “The Case for Reparations” forges an assertion on the controversial subject of slavery reparations. Accordingly, the evidence, structure, and thesis of the argument should uphold a level of both professionalism and pragmatism in supporting the argument. While Coates’ supports his arguments with facets from the physical, economic, social, and political aspects of injustice with according evidence, the lack of cohesiveness from the text weakens the…