The Price They Paid

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.” —Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction In 1831, the American ship Comet , carrying 165 enslaved men,