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Title
Repair : redeeming the promise of abolition / Katherine Franke.
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Call Number
INTERNET
Other Title
Repair : slavery's unfinished business /
ISBN
9781608466269 (electronic bk.)
1608466264 (electronic bk.)
9781608466245
1608466264 (electronic bk.)
9781608466245
Description
1 online resource
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1097248504
Summary
Renewed attention today to a demand for reparations for Black people in this country invites us to turn our attention to the historical context from which that demand originates. Repair takes up that invitation, offering a detailed account of the circumstances that surrounded the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in two unique contexts, the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Davis Bend, Jefferson Davis' former plantation outside Vicksburg, Mississippi. Repair makes the case for racial reparations in the United States by returning to a time at the end of slavery when many formerly enslaved people were provided land explicitly as a form of reparation, yet after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated that land was stolen back from freed people and given to former slave owners. Thus begins a complicated and volatile fight for justice for Black Americans who have had to demand retribution for the crime of slavery in the US.
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Table of Contents
Land and the question of reparative justice in the Sea Islands
Black self-governance at Davis Bend
The ongoing case for reparations
Reparations today.
Black self-governance at Davis Bend
The ongoing case for reparations
Reparations today.