Reparations for Slavery: A Reader Book

Pt. I	Why reparations? : slavery and its aftermath	3
1	The conditions of slavery	5
Reading 1	Incidents in the life of a slave girl	11
Reading 2	What to the slave is the 4th of July?	14
2	Restoring white supremacy : Jim Crow	17
3	The continuing injuries of slavery and Jim Crow	29
4	Slavery's insults : the continuing nonmaterial injuries of slavery	33
Pt. II	Early reparations initiatives	59
5	The nineteenth century	61
Reading 1	Reparations bill for the African slaves in the United States - the first session fortieth Congress	64
Reading 2	Speaking to the U.S. House of Representatives on section 4 of H. R. 29 - the 1867 Slave Reparation Bill	65
6	The mid-twentieth century	69
Reading 1	The Black Manifesto - 1969	70
Reading 2	Compensatory justice and the Black Manifesto	76
Reading 3	H. R. 40, IH 33, 106th Congress, 1st session	91
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
Pt. III	The contemporary moral debate over restitution	121
7	Reparations for slavery in the popular press	127
Reading 1	Ten reasons why reparations for blacks is a bad idea for blacks - and racist too	127
Reading 2	Ten reasons : a response to David Horowitz	130
8	Reparations for slavery in scholarly writing	141
Reading 1	The case for reparations	141
Reading 2	The case against reparations	151
Pt. IV	Underlying questions of responsibility and entitlement	163
9	Collective responsibility : am I responsible for the misdeeds of others?	169
Reading 1	Collective responsibility	169
Reading 2	Relationships and responsibilities	180
10	Historical responsibility : are the sins of the fathers to be visited on their great-great-grandchildren?	197
Reading 1	Ancient wrongs and modern rights	197
Reading 2	Superseding historic injustice	205
Reading 3	Historical obligations	224
Reading 4	Historical injustice and reparations : justifying claims of descendants	236
Pt. V	Some devilish details	261
11	Legal matters	263
Reading 1	Forum : making the case for racial reparations, Harper's Magazine	263
12	Economic calculations	289
Reading 1	Wealth matters, from Being black, living in the red	290
Pt. VI	Alternatives	301
13	Between vengeance and forgiveness	303
Reading 1	From Between vengeance and forgiveness	303