What are Slavery Reparations?
Slavery reparations are compensations paid to enslaved people and/or their descendants. This term is most often used in direct movement to the slavery reparations movement in the United States, which promotes reparations for black Americans descended from former slaves. The concept of reparations for slavery is extremely socially and politically complex, and working out the precise logistics of slavery reparations, such as what form the reparations should take and who is entitled to them, is a difficult task. There are some precedents for slavery reparations. For example, victims of American internment camps for Japanese citizens established during the Second World War received reparations after the fact from the government to acknowledge their suffering. Many Native Americans also receive cash compensation for forfeited and stolen lands, with this compensation also coming from the government. Reparations for slavery, however, are much more difficult to work out.
