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Published · transcript-backedHollis Robbins: belief
28 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
“The best argument, I think — Coates’s argument a couple of years ago in the Atlantic was the best argument, which is that systematically property and value was taken away from the descendants from slave families and from the descendants of the enslaved around the country.”
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- Hollis Robbins
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- 28 Aug 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What’s the best argument in favor of reparations based on the history of slavery? The best argument, I think — Coates’s argument a couple of years ago in the Atlantic was the best argument, which is that systematically property and value was taken away from the descendants from slave families and from the descendants of the enslaved around the country. I think righting the wrongs of redlining, righting the wrongs of incarceration errors, righting the wrongs of family separations. His argument still, as far as I’m concerned, is the most convincing. You’ve written a good deal on the history of the postal service. How did the growth of the postal service change romance in America?…
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