Capitalism and the Legal Foundations of Global Reparations
It is widely contended that Africans were complicit in enslaving other African people, that slavery was legal at the time it was in force and, hence, that demanding reparations from states can have no legal basis. Drawing on the work of Nora Wittmann, this essay questions these presumptions, advance...
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| Language: | English |
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University of California, Berkeley
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Law and Political Economy |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rd4j5bf |