Presumptive Democratic nominee Biden has said he will support study of reparations, representing a sea change on the issue
As the American civil war reached its bloody end in 1865, the Union general William Sherman seized land from Confederates and mandated it be redistributed, in 40-acre plots, to slaves newly freed from bondage.
The promise of “40 acres and a mule” was never fulfilled. But a debate has raged ever since about what America owes to the descendants of slaves, and to the victims of domestic terror and state-sanctioned discrimination that persisted long after emancipation?
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