Reparations for slavery : a reader / edited by Ronald P. Salzberger and Mary C. Turck.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Salzberger, Ronald P., 1945-
Turck, Mary
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004], ©2004.
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Physical Description:xiii, 349 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs
  • What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass
  • Restoring white supremacy: Jim Crow
  • The continuing injuries of slavery and Jim Crow
  • Slavery's insults: the continuing nonmaterial injuries of slavery
  • Reparations bill for the African slaves in the United States / The first session Fortieth Congress
  • The 1867 slave reparation bill / Thaddeus Stevens, quoted speaking to the U.S. House of Representatives on section 4 of H.R. 29
  • The black manifesto (1969) / James Forman
  • Compensatory justice and the black manifesto / Hugo Bedau
  • H.R. 40, IH 33, 106th Congress, 1st session
  • 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 concerning the African reparations
  • Ten reasons why reparations for blacks is a bad idea for blacks, and racist too / David Horowitz
  • Ten reasons: a response to David Horowitz / Ernest Allen Jr. and Robert Chrisman
  • Collective responsibility / Nicholas Rescher
  • Relationships and responsibilities / Samuel Scheffler
  • Ancient wrongs and modern rights / George Sher
  • Supersedinng historic injustice / Jeremy Waldron
  • Historical obligations / Janna Thompson
  • Historical injustices and reparations: justifying claims of descendants / Janna Thompson
  • Making the case for racial reparations / Harper's Magazine
  • 'Wealth matters' from Being black, living in the red / Dalton Conley
  • Excerpt from Between vengeance and forgiveness / Martha Minow.