Paying for compensation to slave-owners-right up until 2015

Ben Bruges
5 min readMar 7, 2021

A friend, Erica Flegg, pointed out “What feels so weird about this is that it all passed off without comment until now.” ‘Now’ being a huge upsurge in the fight against racism led by #blacklivesmatter.

I remember first learning about this list something like five years ago. Like everybody my first impression hearing about a compensation list was to assume it was…

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Ben Bruges

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