Reparations for slavery: a reader

Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary C.. Turck

Rowman & Littlefield, 2004 - History - 349 pages

Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery in the United States. Unlike many other readers on such topics, this book includes a substantial number of essays designed to provide the entire discussion with an historical context by giving the reader a vivid sense of the injuries inflicted by slavery, its aftermath, and the continuing history of state-supported discrimination.

Contents

• Why Reparations Slavery and Its Aftermath: 3
• The Conditions of Slavery: 5
• Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: 11
• Frederick Douglass What to the Slave is the 4th of July?: 14
• Restoring White Supremacy Jim Crow: 17
• The Continuing Injuries of Slavery and Jim Crow: 29
• Slaverys Insults The Continuing Nonmaterial Injuries of Slavery: 33
• Early Reparations Initiatives: 59
• The Nineteenth Century: 61
• Reparations Bill for the African Slaves in the United States The First Session Fortieth Congress: 64
• Thaddeus Stevens Quoted Speaking to the US House of Representatives on Section 4 of H R 29 The 1867 Slave Reparation Bill: 65
• The MidTwentieth Century: 69
• James Forman The Black Manifesto1969: 70
• Hugo Bedau Compensatory justice and The Black Manifesto: 76
• H R 40 IH 33 106th Congress 1st Session: 91
• The Official record from Hansard of the Debate Initiated by Lord Gifford QC in the House of Lords of the British Parliament on 14th March 1996 C...: 96
• The Contemporary Moral Debate over Restitution: 121
• Reparations for Slavery in the Popular Press Reading 1 David Horowitz Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Black and Racist ...: 127
• Ernest Allen Jr and Robert Chrisman Ten Reasons A Response to David Horowitz: 130
• Reparations for Slavery in Scholarly Writing: 141
• Stephen Kershnar The Case against Reparations: 151
• Underlying Questions of Responsibility and Entitlement: 163
• Collective Responsibility Am I Responsible for the Misdeeds of Others?: 169
• Samuel Scheffler Relationships and Responsibilities: 180
• Historical Responsibility Are the Sins of the Fathers to Be Visited on Their GreatGreatGrandchildren?: 197
• Jeremy Waldron Superseding Historic Injustice: 205
• Janna Thompson Historical Obligations: 224
• Janna Thompson Historical Injustice and Reparations Justifying Claims of Descendants: 236
• Some Devilish Details: 261
• Legal Matters Forum Making the Case for Racial Reparations Harpers Magazine: 263
• Economic Calculations: 289
• Dalton Conley Wealth Matters from Being Black Living in the Red: 290
• Alternatives: 301
• Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: 303
• Bibliography: 329
• Index: 339
• About the Editors: 349

About the author

Ronald P. Salzberger is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota. Mary C. Turck is currently the editor of Connections to the Americas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Reparations for slavery: a reader
• Editors: Ronald P. Salzberger, Mary C.. Turck
• Contributor: Ronald P. Salzberger
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
• ISBN: 0742514765, 9780742514768
• Length: 349 pages
• Subjects: History / Reference; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Slavery