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Should the USA Offer Reparations to Africa for the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann
Published in: Society (2022)
This article begins with background information on the international social movement for reparations for the transatlantic slave trade. I then propose that the USA ought to offer reparations, including participation in and financing of a truth commission on the slave trade; apology for the harms caused by the trade; and symbolic financial assistance to establish monuments to the slave trade, museums exhibits, and educational programs. The article concludes with a discussion of whether the USA would have the political will to offer reparations to Africa.
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