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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