Enslavers’ compensation funded long prosperous white lives that enslaved people never reached

Evidence

Though slavery had legally ended in the District of Columbia, the spoils of the institution would continue to be a part of the financial futures of enslavers like Margaret Barber for many years to come. She lived a long and prosperous life and died of influenza on February 14, 1892, at the age of eighty-two, at a time when very few Americans, and certainly not enslaved people, lived so long. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 112

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the ‘Whiteness of Wealth’ diagnosis: the funded white advantage compounds across lifetimes the way wealth transfers did there.