![No guessing who in this 1864 depiction may have been compensated after slavery ended.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1864-depiction-plantation-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate for slavery. But the money never went to those who suffered under the system, only those who profited. By…
History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate for slavery. But the money never went to those who suffered under the system, only those who profited. By…
By Michael Burlingame, HNN — Six weeks after Lincoln’s death, Frederick Douglass described him as “emphatically the black man’s president, the first chief executive “to show any respect for the…