"The Case for Black Reparations based on the Unjust enrichment of Whites from Slavery"
by Bernie Boxill

Several philosophers have argued that the case for Black Reparations for slavery does not depend on unjust white enrichment from slavery. They say that the unjust white enrichment from slavery is unclear and in any case irrelevant to the case for Black Reparations. On the first point they argue that slavery was not profitable, or that most whites have not profited from it. On the second point they argue that a case for reparation depends on unjust harm not profit; a person has a claim to reparation from others who have unjustly harmed him, whether or not they have profited unjustly as a result. In the first part of my paper I try to meet these arguments. In the second part of the paper I try to show that a part of the case for Black Reparations depends on the exercise of arguing for unjust white enrichment from slavery.