Reparations estimates range from 8.6 to 17.1 trillion dollars at present value

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 227 Thomas Craemer et al., “Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the Enslaved,” Review of Black Political Economy 47, no. 3 (2020): 228; William A. Darity, Jr., and Kristen Mullen, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), 261. Their estimates, with interest calculated at a 2018 present value, range between 8.6 trillion and 17.1 trillion depending upon the interest rate used. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1084