Reparations for Slavery A Reader

by Salzberger, Ronald Paul; Turck, Mary C.; Stevens, Thaddeus; Forman, James; Bedau, Hugo; Horowitz, David; Jr., Ernest Allen; Chrisman, Robert; Fullinwider, Robert K.; Kershnar, Stephen; Rescher, Nicholas; Scheffler, Samuel; Sher, George; Waldron, Jeremy; T

• ISBN13: 9780742514768
• ISBN10: 0742514765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-13
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery in the United States. Unlike other readers on the topic, the selections in this volume provide rich historical context by giving the reader a vivid sense of the injuries inflicted by slavery, its aftermath, and the continuing history of state-supported discrimination. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
INDISPENSABLE PRELIMINARIES
Part I: Why Reparations? Slavery and Its Aftermath	3	(56)
1 The Conditions of Slavery	5	(12)
Reading 1 Harriet Jacobs: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"	11	(3)
Reading 2 Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?"	14	(3)
2 Restoring White Supremacy: Jim Crow	17	(12)
3 The Continuing Injuries of Slavery and Jim Crow	29	(4)
4 Slavery's Insults: The Continuing Nonmaterial Injuries of Slavery	33	(26)
Part II: Early Reparations Initiatives	59	(62)
5 The Nineteenth Century	61	(8)
Reading 1 Reparations Bill for the African Slaves in the United States-The First Session Fortieth Congress	64	(1)
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	65	(4)
6 The Mid-Twentieth Century	69	(52)
Reading 1 James Forman: "The Black Manifesto"-1969	70	(6)
Reading 2 Hugo Bedau: "Compensatory Justice and The Black Manifesto"	76	(15)
Reading 3 H.R. 40, IH 33, 106th Congress, 1st Session	91	(5)
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	96	(25)
THE MAIN QUESTIONS
Part III: The Contemporary Moral Debate over Restitution	121	(42)
7 Reparations for Slavery in the Popular Press	127	(14)
Reading 1 David Horowitz: "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Blacks-and Racist Too"	127	(3)
Reading 2 Ernest Allen Jr. and Robert Chrisman: "Ten Reasons: A Response to David Horowitz"	130	(11)
8 Reparations for Slavery in Scholarly Writing	141	(22)
Reading 1 Robert K. Fullinwider: "The Case for Reparations"	141	(10)
Reading 2 Stephen Kershnar: "The Case against Reparations"	151	(12)
Part IV: Underlying Questions of Responsibility and Entitlement	163	(98)
9 Collective Responsibility: Am I Responsible for the Misdeeds of Others?	169	(28)
Reading 1 Nicholas Rescher: "Collective Responsibility"	169	(11)
Reading 2 Samuel Scheffler: "Relationships and Responsibilities"	180	(17)
10 Historical Responsibility: Are the Sins of the Fathers to Be Visited on Their Great-Great-Grandchildren?	197	(64)
Reading 1 George Sher: "Ancient Wrongs and Modem Rights"	197	(8)
Reading 2 Jeremy Waldron: "Superseding Historic Injustice"	205	(19)
Reading 3 Janna Thompson: "Historical Obligations"	224	(12)
Reading 4 Janna Thompson: "Historical Injustice and Reparations: Justifying Claims of Descendants"	236	(25)
IMPORTANT SUBSIDIARY ISSUES
Part V: Some Devilish Details	261	(40)
11 Legal Matters	263	(26)
Reading 1 Forum: "Making the Case for Racial Reparations," Harper's Magazine	263	(26)
12 Economic Calculations	289	(12)
Reading 1 Dalton Conley: "Wealth Matters," from Being Black, Living in the Red	290	(11)
Part VI: Alternatives	301	(28)
13 Between Vengeance and Forgiveness	303	(26)
Reading 1 Martha Minow: From Between Vengeance and Forgiveness	303	(26)
Bibliography	329	(10)
Index	339	(10)
About the Editors	349