The Reparations Ledger

A preserved archival surface from Black American Ancestors focused on Foundational Black American reparations, full cash repair, public-record proof, and the unfinished duty to repair the economic, educational, health, land, housing, and inheritance injuries carried forward from slavery and its aftermath.

Research archive

Reparations Metrics

Understand how wealth gaps, land loss, housing exclusion, wage suppression, and criminal justice extraction inform reparations estimates.

Racial Wealth Gap

The current wealth gap is treated here as the live residue of historical extraction, denied transfers, unequal access to capital accumulation, and the unpaid balance that full cash repair must confront.

Land Loss

Land loss matters because lost land is not only lost acreage; it is lost production, collateral, inheritance, community stability, and political autonomy.

Housing Exclusion

Housing exclusion turns redlining, FHA policy, and GI Bill discrimination into compounding missed equity that cash repair and housing repair must both address.

Wage Suppression and Labor Extraction

From slavery to labor-market discrimination, wage suppression is a direct ledger item rather than a metaphorical one because labor loss becomes household loss.

Criminal Justice Extraction

Incarceration, fines, surveillance, lost wages, and family disruption extend the ledger into the present and connect public safety to reparations accounting.