An estimated $59 trillion in intergenerational wealth transfers occurring 2007-2061 is partially slavery-tainted.

Evidence

In Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, Katherine Franke, formerly the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, describes how an “estimated $59 trillion…will be transferred from 93.6 million American estates from 2007 to 2061, in the greatest wealth transfer in US history.” Surely some of that wealth is slavery-tainted. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 443

Categorization

• QUESTION: How would one even begin to trace which of 93.6 million estates’ wealth is slavery-tainted, and is there any legal precedent for such tracing?
• SEED: The claim ‘surely some of that wealth is slavery-tainted’ is an opening for an accounting-framework piece on how reparations could attach to the intergenerational wealth transfer.