"Absolving Slavery: Naming Our Price" Or "Why Reparations Can Only Be Utilitarian in Nature"
by Barbara Hall.

My basic argument will be that Kantian justifications of reparations for African-Americans assume that the past can be erased or nullified by some "proportional" form of atonement (reparations). I suggest that even if this were metaphysically possible, which it is not, some acts/events are so atrocious that they cannot be "made clean". American slavery was such an event. Restitution is impossible. Utilitarian based reparations could allow forgiveness assuming the plight of contemporary/future A-A's was improved. But, the fact of slavery cannot be expunged which is what Kantian ethics seems to require.