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New Suit Claims Firms Should Pay Reparations for Slave Labor
By John Donvan
W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 17 In the controversial best seller, The Debt, its author, Randall Robinson, stares up awe-struck at the U.S. Capitol building, reflecting on something perhaps only few Americans know that many of the workmen who built the Capitol were slaves.
In the first eight years of the Capitols construction, more than 60 percent of the laborers were slaves. The records exist pay slips in the national archives, issued by the Department of Treasury, listing the names of black hired laborers, none of whom have a last name.
Peter, Tom, Ben and hundreds of other slaves worked, but none were paid. But their owners were; thats what the receipts are for.
And yet, as Robinson points out, once the building was up and artists and sculptors moved in to make the place a shrine to liberty, the slaves contribution, any black contribution, was painted out of the picture.
The story of white men being paid for work performed by black slaves at the Capitol and the White House may be an old story. But now its at the center of a new lawsuit filed in a federal courthouse in Chicago.
Edward Fagan, an attorney for the plaintiffs, explains: The issue is: Should companies be allowed to retain profits that they made from illegal activities, unlawful activities, and never account for those profits and never give back to the affected communities?
Proponents of slavery reparations are encouraged by the Holocaust reparations cases of the 1990s Fagan helped argue and ultimately win. Germany, Austria and a host of European companies that used slave laborers during the Nazi era ultimately settled out of court, creating a $4 billion fund to pay claims to those who were enslaved.
Insurance Policies for Slaves
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann has emerged as the leading investigator and cataloger of American firms whose corporate ancestors, it is alleged in the Chicago case, profited from the slave trade. For Farmer-Paellmann, her involvement began when she was in law school
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