Freed people received nothing while wage theft from slavery totals $19 trillion
Evidence
But what about Peter Jenkins, Richard Williams, Susan Carroll, and the rest of the thirty-four people enslaved at Northview—what happened to them? The newly freed received nothing to compensate them for the wealth that Margaret Barber had stripped from them in the form of wages. Total wage theft from slavery is conservatively estimated to be $19 trillion. Now they were no longer enslaved, but lacking resources, they weren’t truly free either. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 114
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SHARE: The $19 trillion wage-theft figure is exactly the kind of hard number a colleague building a reparations argument would want.
Related
- Uncompensated enslaved people were legally free but not truly free (similarity 0.88)
- Stolen enslaved labor compounds to trillions in current value (similarity 0.81)
- Enslaved labor’s uncompensated value compounds to trillions today. (similarity 0.80)
- Loss of freedom has been quantified at trillions to quadrillions of dollars. (similarity 0.79)
- Freed people received no reparations and had Forty Acres land repossessed by President Johnson. (similarity 0.78)
- Enslaved people accrued none of the wealth they produced (similarity 0.78)