In the 1700s, New York City had the second largest slave population of any American city, with enslaved African Americans at the heart of the city’s workforce. That history is at the center of a resurgent push to secure reparations in the city.
to establish a Reparations Commission, the plan faltered in the state Senate, leaving the future of local reparations uncertain. Bloomberg reported in January that key allies of Democratic Mayor Eric Adams were conducting “road-test” polling on a host of issues, including reparations. The report made no suggestion a proposal would follow.
Despite the setbacks, advocates for reparations argue that with an unprecedented alignment of Black electoral power – represented by Mayor Adams, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins – the conditions to advance reparations are promising.
A reparations taskforce in California has been meeting since June. It considered historic precedents, such as the billions of dollars paid by Germany to victims of the Holocaust and payments made by the United States to Japanese Americans held in detention during World War II. Last week, members of the Boston City Council proposed the creation of a commission to study reparations.in support of a Reparations Commission in December.
That single act, she said, had a profound impact not only on those homeowners, but on their children and later descendants, by depriving them of inter-generational wealth.
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