| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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| INDISPENSABLE PRELIMINARIES |
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Part I: Why Reparations? Slavery and Its Aftermath |
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1 The Conditions of Slavery |
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Reading 1 Harriet Jacobs: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" |
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11 | (3) |
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Reading 2 Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" |
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14 | (3) |
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2 Restoring White Supremacy: Jim Crow |
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17 | (12) |
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3 The Continuing Injuries of Slavery and Jim Crow |
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29 | (4) |
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4 Slavery's Insults: The Continuing Nonmaterial Injuries of Slavery |
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33 | (26) |
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Part II: Early Reparations Initiatives |
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59 | (62) |
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61 | (8) |
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Reading 1 Reparations Bill for the African Slaves in the United States-The First Session Fortieth Congress |
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Reading 2 Thaddeus Stevens, Quoted Speaking to the U.S. House of Representatives on Section 4 of H.R. 29 - The 1867 Slave Reparation Bill |
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65 | (4) |
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6 The Mid-Twentieth Century |
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Reading 1 James Forman: "The Black Manifesto"-1969 |
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70 | (6) |
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Reading 2 Hugo Bedau: "Compensatory Justice and The Black Manifesto" |
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76 | (15) |
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Reading 3 H.R. 40, IH 33, 106th Congress, 1st Session |
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Reading 4 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 |
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| THE MAIN QUESTIONS |
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Part III: The Contemporary Moral Debate over Restitution |
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121 | (42) |
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7 Reparations for Slavery in the Popular Press |
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127 | (14) |
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Reading 1 David Horowitz: "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Blacks-and Racist Too" |
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Reading 2 Ernest Allen Jr. and Robert Chrisman: "Ten Reasons: A Response to David Horowitz" |
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130 | (11) |
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8 Reparations for Slavery in Scholarly Writing |
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141 | (22) |
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Reading 1 Robert K. Fullinwider: "The Case for Reparations" |
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141 | (10) |
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Reading 2 Stephen Kershnar: "The Case against Reparations" |
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151 | (12) |
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Part IV: Underlying Questions of Responsibility and Entitlement |
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163 | (98) |
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9 Collective Responsibility: Am I Responsible for the Misdeeds of Others? |
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169 | (28) |
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Reading 1 Nicholas Rescher: "Collective Responsibility" |
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169 | (11) |
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Reading 2 Samuel Scheffler: "Relationships and Responsibilities" |
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180 | (17) |
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10 Historical Responsibility: Are the Sins of the Fathers to Be Visited on Their Great-Great-Grandchildren? |
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Reading 1 George Sher: "Ancient Wrongs and Modem Rights" |
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197 | (8) |
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Reading 2 Jeremy Waldron: "Superseding Historic Injustice" |
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205 | (19) |
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Reading 3 Janna Thompson: "Historical Obligations" |
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224 | (12) |
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Reading 4 Janna Thompson: "Historical Injustice and Reparations: Justifying Claims of Descendants" |
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236 | (25) |
| IMPORTANT SUBSIDIARY ISSUES |
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Part V: Some Devilish Details |
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261 | (40) |
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263 | (26) |
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Reading 1 Forum: "Making the Case for Racial Reparations," Harper's Magazine |
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263 | (26) |
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289 | (12) |
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Reading 1 Dalton Conley: "Wealth Matters," from Being Black, Living in the Red |
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290 | (11) |
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301 | (28) |
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13 Between Vengeance and Forgiveness |
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Reading 1 Martha Minow: From Between Vengeance and Forgiveness |
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303 | (26) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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| About the Editors |
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