Descendants of enslavers long benefited financially from slave labor

Evidence

Senator McConnell’s suggestion that he had nothing to do with previous generations’ sins is ironic given that his great-great-grandfathers enslaved fourteen people and benefited from their exploited labor. Research shows that after the Civil War, white Southern enslavers were able to rebound financially more quickly than white Southerners who were not enslavers. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Brown’s Part II documentation of white wealth-building advantages; the ‘innocent today’ claimant is factually entangled.