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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War

By Jeff Forret
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By Jeff Forret
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A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves

“A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic

Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction
Winner, John Lyman Book Award in North American Maritime Hi...

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