Enslaved people at Northview were stripped of names, wages, and intellectual property rights.

Evidence

As recorded in the 1850 US Census, “Female, Black, 60 y.o., Born in 1790,” “Male, Black, 25 y.o., Born in 1825,” and “Female, Black, 25 y.o., Born in 1825” were some of the enslaved people who lived and worked at Northview. They weren’t even given the basic dignity of having their names recorded, consistent with standard practice. Collectively, they spent their entire lives serving Margaret, her parents, or other enslavers. They built up the Barbers’ wealth while being stripped of their own. Many had been bought to serve for life and could only dream of becoming free. They tended to their tasks, inside the house and out in the fields, day in and day out. They were never paid wages for their labor, and if they had ever invented anything, they would have been deprived of their intellectual property rights. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the multiple avenues of harm—unpaid labor, no IP rights, no dignity—that reparations accounting has to tally.