Horowitz/Reparations for slavery

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Mar 5 11:18:35 PST 2001


Justin writes:


> There is no legal claim, not because the slaves are dead, but because
> slavery was legal.

So was holocaust-era slave labor. So was the confiscation of Jewish property. Reparations are political claims in quasi-legal form. For better or worse, their ex post facto legal basis has never been a problem. It wasn't in WWI reparations claims against Germany either.

Michael

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