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Last March, a crowd of nearly 100 gathered in Williamsburg, Virginia, for an all-day symposium about slavery and reconciliation. The event, put on by the College of William & Mary, wasn’t a broad, rhetorical discussion of the past.
OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus‘s insight:
Is this the beginning of serious consideration and structure for reparations for American chattel slavery ?
"Representatives from 30 universities gathered at Emory University in Atlanta in February for a conference on slavery at universities. Among those in attendance: Brown, Harvard, University of Virginia, Clemson University, The Citadel, Stanford University, University of Indiana and Yale University."
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