MetaFilter posts tagged with slavery and reparations

The Slow Death of American Slavery

jonp72 — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:37:45 -0800

Slavery Ended in the 1960s, not the 1860s The Civil War made slavery illegal, but that didn't wipe it out completely. White farmer, John Williams, forced his black overseer to murder 11 slaves in the wake of a 1921 federal investigation. The Dial Brothers were also convicted by the Justice Department for "African slavery" in the 1940s. In another case, a black genealogist found a 104-year-old man who claims he and his family were enslaved until the 1960s. It's not necessary to rehash the entire reparations debate to realize that some of these post-Civil War slavery cases may finally have a day in court.

Fraudulent Slavery Reparations

cpfeifer — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:58:23 -0800

Recipient of largest slavery reparations claim sentanced to 3 years in jail and her father, the accountant who did the paperwork to get the refund received 13 years in jail. The article goes on to report that the IRS estimates the fraudulent reparations payout to be apporx $2.7B. "It was unjust because we are supposed to get reparations as black people -- just like the Jews got it. What do we get? Jail time," said family friend Margaret Roach What do you think?

aladfar — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:32:51 -0800

Chicago moves toward reparations: When vying for city contracts, companies must search their records and disclose whether they've profited from slavery.

crackheadmatt — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:30:25 -0800

There has been alot in the news about Slave Reperations lately. Friday while at the store, the register clerk started to ask me about my family history and then accused me of being a descendant of her ancestor's slave master and told me i owed her. What type of scam is this?

owillis — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:01:10 -0800

Reparations activists are going after corporations who may have had ties to or profited from the slave trade to seek financial compensation. "So far, the reparations legal team has publicly identified five companies it says have slave ties: insurers Aetna, New York Life and AIG and financial giants J.P. Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank and FleetBoston Financial Group." Of course, the article (or the sidebar) doesn't cite anyone who may be against the whole notion - which is possibly bias of some sort, and seeing Johnnie Cochran on the list of people involved doesn't exactly warm one's heart either. (here are several other related "background" articles)

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:47:34 -0800

Did you know about the "African-American Slavery Reparations" tax credit? (Neither did I.)

darren — Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:23:07 -0800

Here's your reparations money, now shut up! Another POV in the slavery reparations debate: From the conservative National Review, an argument that paying off black Americans would be worth it "if they could no longer play the race card."