REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY DEBATE IN UNITED STATES

Reparations for slavery is a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States , in consideration of the forced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to land-based compensation related to independence. The idea remains highly controversial and no broad consensus exists as to how it could be implemented. There have been similar calls for reparations from some Caribbean countries [1] and elsewhere in the African diaspora , and some African countries have called for reparations to their states for the loss of their population.