I suppose those 9 slaves would have gladly traded places with your family. At least
your intact family was allowed to exist, were theirs ? Were those 9 slaves a family, or were families torn apart to assemble that collection ? It seems that people ignore what the threat of having fathers or mothers or children sold from the family does to family dynamics and how those dynamics become ingrained in family culture. That is likely something most people today could not even fathom, yet they've seen the results from afar all their lives.
This is the site that video was taken from, the national archives.
It shows that reparations were paid at the end of the war.
Only the recipients were the slave owners, not the slaves.
Enlarge Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia for Colored People in Washington, April 19, 1866 Wood Engraving from a sketch by F. Dielman in Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper. On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the...
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The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to a conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called "the national shame" of slavery in the nation's capital. It provided for immediate emancipation, compensation to former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 for each person choosing emigration.