Compensated emancipation enriched enslavers while leaving the enslaved nothing to pass down

Evidence

Margaret Barber’s wealth, which included her Compensated Emancipation Act payment, was passed down from generation to generation. And yet those she enslaved never received any financial compensation that they could invest and leave for their descendants. Slavery in America is never just about the past; it inevitably seeps into our present and our future. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 459

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the ‘hidden history’ pillar — Brown’s point that even ‘compensation’ was engineered to enrich the enslaver, echoing how US policy has repeatedly compensated oppressors (cf. Cherokee removal payments, etc.).