The fact remains that enslaved black people labored for centuries without pay. They tilled the soil, picked crops until their fingers bled, raised other people’s children, and performed many other valuable forms of labor even as they endured abuse, rape, murder, and family separations. But reparations pertain not only to the problems that attended slavery. The opportunities lost due to legalized segregation during the Jim Crow era also demand redress. Segregation denied black people opportunities for education, employment, and asset accumulation, all of which contribute to the wealth gap
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