Beschreibung:
Jeff Forret is University Professor of History at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He has authored or edited seven books, including the award-winning Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South and Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts. He lives in Lumberton, Texas.
A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves