The US paid indemnities to China and Mexico for their lynched citizens too.
Evidence
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 73 In addition to compensation on behalf of Italian citizens, the United States also made payments on behalf of other countries’ citizens, including China and Mexico. William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, “African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States,” Journal of World History 33, no. 4 (2022): 669–702. Congress approved “payment of
147,000 in indemnities” to China (677). “On January 18, 1898, President McKinley requested that Congress authorize a2000 indemnity to [the family of a Mexican lynched in California]” (680). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 744
Categorization
- XREF: Extends the precedent pattern beyond Italians to China and Mexico — a broader accounting comparison.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 744