Rehearsals for Reparations
This article considers a subset of lawsuits in which emancipated people sued to have their enslavers’ bequests to them honored. It contends that we should see these suits as contests over reparations. By exploring this unappreciated history, this article argues that enslavers themselves believed rep...
| Published in: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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| Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2024-06-01
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