From WSJbooks: In 'Sweet Taste of Liberty,' W. Caleb McDaniel, a professor of history at Rice University, describes one former slave’s quest for reparation. Fergus M. Bordewich reviews.
Few topics are as fraught as the demand for reparations to African-Americans for their ancestors’ experience of slavery. Even people who believe that repayment is owed differ about what form it ought to take.
The form it might have taken early on, in the wake of the Civil War, was the oft-cited promise of “forty acres and a mule” , but it was never adopted as an official policy and was far from a real promise. It does, however, express the most modest form of reparation that the government might have offered to freed men and women at the time. In the event,...
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