A statewide Compensation Conducted in the report California That there are deep roots details Slavery Was on the state for years.
The first type of report is published Wednesday And explains how black slavery in California evolved over time into the racist social structure that exists today. Slavery has been the direct result of years of political neglect, unjust policing of people of color, and other chronic economic and social inequalities.
The report was prepared by the Civil Rights Branch California Department of Justice In collaboration with the Compensation Task Force. It comes at a time when the United States is continuing its dialogue on slavery compensation. However, given the large scale of the slave trade in the country, it will probably take several years to identify who will receive the funds or for what reasons.
“Every state has some history of harming the African American community,” he said Attorney We Moore, Who is a compensatory justice scholar who works with eight other people on the California Compensation Task Force. Established 2020The group has spent the past two years studying the effects of the slave trade in California.
Inside March, The task force ruled that future compensation would be based on descent, and that descendants of slaves and freed blacks living in the country before the end of the nineteenth century would be strictly granted. The task force will release a second report next year outlining possible compensation proposals.
Although California banned slavery when it joined the United States in 1850, it looks different when people in slavery were trafficked into the state. California also supported slave-owned Southerners. Two years after joining the United States, lawmakers passed a Fugitive Slavery Act that allows captive fugitives to be returned to their captives.
“I hope this report will be used not only as an educational tool, but also as an organizational tool to educate their communities, not just in California, but across the United States,” Moore told the Associated Press.