Title
Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2004
ISSN
0006-8047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Chattel slavery was a brutally cruel, repressive, and exploitative system of racial subjugation. When it was abolished, the former slaveholders owed the freedmen compensation for the terrible wrongs of enslavement. Ex-slaves sought reparations, especially in the form of land, but few received any sort of recompense. The wrongs they suffered were never repaired.
Recommended Citation
David Lyons,
Corrective Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow
,
in
84
Boston University Law Review
1375
(2004).
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