Enslavers’ descendants still benefit because enslaver wealth rebounded fastest after the war

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

• QUESTION: The claim that enslaver families financially out-rebounded non-enslaver whites after the Civil War is the empirical lynchpin against the ‘no one living is responsible’ objection — worth tracking down the original study.