The Price They Paid
Forret, Jeff A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas--then part of the British Empire--where slavery had been outlawed. Shortly afterwards, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged ob...