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4 ways reparations for slavery can help close the racial wealth gap
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Reparations for slavery are in the news again after discussions at the local and federal levels.
Reparations can help close the racial wealth gap by reversing some of the damage of structural racism.
They can take the form of cash, as well as housing, education, and business grants.
In 1865, 400,000 acres of Confederate land were confiscated and set aside for freed slaves; each Black family expected to receive approximately 40 acres. But the federal government never fulfilled that promise. Instead, at the end of the Civil War, many slave owners received cash reparations for each previously enslaved person who was set free and the former slaves saw nothing. ....

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