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.
This page translates the uploaded spreadsheet into a public reading surface. It keeps the category, estimate range, source, and context together so the workbook can be examined as evidence rather than treated like an attachment no one opens.
The workbook view is where full cash repair becomes visible as a set of accounting lanes. Unpaid labor, broken promises, land loss, housing exclusion, state violence, health harm, and wealth-gap residue are not interchangeable injuries; each has its own source trail, estimate range, and repair logic. Reading the table is an act of public clarity: it makes the scale of the claim visible without pretending one row can carry the whole history.
Cash compensation is the non-negotiable financial center, but the workbook also shows why the repair conversation touches land, housing, health, education, safety, and inheritance. A single policy lane cannot repair a multi-century extraction system by itself.
The original spreadsheet is still available if you want the uploaded file itself.
The slide room uses the same numbers but turns them into a chapter-by-chapter reading path.
Low estimate: $5.9T
High estimate: $14.2T
Low estimate: $0.16T
High estimate: $3.1T
Low estimate: $10T
High estimate: $14T
| Category | Metric | Low estimate | High estimate | Primary source | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slavery & Unpaid Labor | Present Value of Unpaid Labor (1776-1865) | $5.9 Trillion | $14.2 Trillion | Thomas Craemer (2015) | Calculated using unremunerated work hours and historical free labor rates, then translated into present-value terms. |
| Broken Promises | 40 Acres and a Mule (Special Field Order 15) | $160 Billion | $3.1 Trillion | Darity & Mullen / Craemer | Represents the value of the 400,000 acres promised in 1865, adjusted through different compounding lenses. |
| Land Loss | Black Agricultural Land Loss (1920-1997) | $326 Billion | $600 Billion+ | American Bar Association / Research Scholars | Tracks the loss of roughly 16 million acres through discriminatory lending, legal pressure, and coerced transfer. |
| Housing Exclusion | Redlining & FHA Discrimination (CA Task Force) | $158,000 per person | Varies by duration | California Reparations Task Force (2023) | Represents compounded missed housing equity for residents exposed to state-backed exclusion during the redlining era. |
| Wealth Gap | Total Racial Wealth Gap (Current) | $10 Trillion | $14 Trillion | Federal Reserve / Darity | Frames the present wealth gap as the live residue of denied transfers, blocked ownership, and unequal compounding. |
| State Violence & Law | Mass Incarceration & Over-policing | $115,000 per year | Per person impact | California Reparations Task Force (2023) | Captures lost wages and material harm associated with incarceration, sentencing disparities, and over-policing. |