California passes law establishing path to black reparations

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California passes law establishing path to black reparations Oct 1, 2020 15:23:14 GMT

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California on Wednesday became the first state to adopt a law paving the way for Black residents and descendants of slaves to receive reparation payments.

The legislation, which was authored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a Democrat representing San Diego who is chair of California's Legislative Black Caucus, does not commit to any specific payment. Instead, it establishes a nine-person task force that will study the impact of slavery on Black people in California and recommend to the Legislature what kind of compensation should be provided, who should receive it and what form it will take.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the law Wednesday afternoon.

news.yahoo.com/historic-california-law-establishes-path-002037800.html

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California passes law establishing path to black reparations Oct 2, 2020 4:07:35 GMT

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We really didn't study slavery in school, back in the late 1960s-1970s to any greater extent than that it occurred in the southern US states, and those were the states that seceded as part of the Civil War.

In looking at the map above - and I know, I'm not talking about California, which is the focus of this thread, I see that Oklahoma was not a "free territory". Imagine my surprise. I've lived in Oklahoma for 41 years. I've never ever heard a word about slaves being held in Oklahoma, which was Indian Territory.

So I googled it. This information was surprising and informative. :ohno

The Cherokee brought many of their slaves with them to the West in the Indian Removal of the 1820s and 1830s, when the federal government forcibly removed them from the Southeastern states. Joseph Vann was described as taking 200 slaves with him.[1] Black slaves in each of the tribes performed much of the physical labor involved in the removal.[2] For example, they loaded wagons, cleared the roads, and led the teams of livestock along the way.

By 1835, the time of removal, the Cherokee owned an estimated total of 1500 slaves of African ancestry (the most black slaves of any of the Five Civilized Tribes).[2] Within five years of removal, 300 mixed-race Cherokee families, most descendants of European traders and Cherokee women for generations, made up an elite class in the Indian Territory. Most owned 25–50 slaves each. Some of their plantations had 600 to 1,000 acres; cultivating wheat, cotton, corn, hemp, and tobacco. Most of the men also had large cattle and horse herds.[3]

By 1860, the Cherokee held an estimated 4,600 slaves, and depended on them as farm laborers and domestic servants. At the time of the Civil War, a total of more than 8,000 slaves were held in all of the Indian Territory, where they comprised 14 percent of the population.[2]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_Slave_Revolt_in_the_Cherokee_Nation

Underlining is mine - I wanted to put some focus on the numbers. I realize, I live in the lower portion of the SW quadrant of the state, so maybe that's a reason I've never heard a word about slaves being held in Indian Territory.

I certainly hope, if anybody gets the bright idea to bring up the subject of reparations here, they go after the Native American tribes that held slaves, not all Oklahomans. Sounds only fair to me.

Thomas Sowell's quote, whether it specifically addresses reparations or in more general terms addresses the redistribution of wealth, strikes me as fitting, so I'm gonna put a copy here.

"What exactly is 'Your Fair Share' of what 'Someone Else' has worked for?"

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California passes law establishing path to black reparations

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