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  2. Reparations for slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. In the US, reparations for slavery have been both given by legal ruling in court and/or given voluntarily (without court rulings) by ...

  3. Reparations for slavery - Wikipedia

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    There are instances of reparations for slavery, relating to the Atlantic slave trade, dating back to at least 1783 in North America, [1] with a growing list of modern-day examples of reparations for slavery in the United States in 2020 as the call for reparations in the US has been bolstered by protests around police brutality and other cases ...

  4. Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for ...

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    Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act; Long title: To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent ...

  5. Reparation - Wikipedia

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    Reparations (transitional justice), measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic violations of human rights law or humanitarian law; Reparations for slavery, proposed compensation for the Atlantic slave trade, to assist the descendants of enslaved peoples Reparations for slavery in the United States

  6. Is California giving reparations for slavery? Here's what you ...

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    California's Reparations Task Force voted on Saturday to recommend that the state issue a formal apology for slavery and potentially provide billions of dollars in cash payments, moving forward a ...

  7. National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension ...

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    A few years later, Dickerson and Callie House would launch their own pension and reparations movement by forming an organization led by and composed of African Americans. The 1900 Nashville City Directory lists the address of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Application as being located at 903 Church Street in Nashville.

  8. Compensated emancipation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Compensated emancipation in the United States, sometimes reparations for slave owners, was the concept of paying slave owners for their slaves as a path to eventual total abolition. In the United States, the regulation of slavery was predominantly a state function.

  9. Barbados PM Mottley calls for slavery reparation conversations

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    Barbados was one of Britain's first slave colonies. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London on Wednesday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries that saw ...