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California was not a slave state, but more than 4,000 enslaved Black people were taken there between 1850 and 1860, typically by plantation owners, to work in the gold mines.
Reparations for Slavery: a Reader – a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery. Reparations, R.I.P., City Journal, Autumn 2008 Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act Archived October 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine – A bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers , Jr. every year since 1989 ...
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 ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers in 2020 touted a law to create a state task force to study and propose remedies to atone for the legacy of slavery. Four years later, their work to ...
The California Reparations Task Force is a non-regulatory state agency in California established by California Assembly Bill 3121 in 2020 to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans, especially those who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States. It was the country's first statewide reparations task committee ...
Reparations for slavery refers to providing benefits to victims of slavery and/or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. Reparations can take many forms, including practical and financial assistance to the descendants of enslaved people, acknowledgements or apologies to ...
A new report from California’s first-in-the-country reparations task force details how slavery touched nearly every aspect of Black life in America, producing “innumerable harms” that are ...
The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845. The use of slavery expanded in the mid-nineteenth century as White American settlers, primarily from the Southeastern United States, crossed the ...