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Tracing America's Long Debate About Reparations For Slavery

How can a country built on the backs of enslaved people compensate for past wrongs? That is the question at the heart of Andrew Delbanco’s upcoming Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities selects a scholar to give an address, an act the NEH calls “the highest honor the … Continue reading Tracing America's Long Debate About Reparations For Slavery