Twin Cities PBS | Slave Labor's Money Built Minnesota. How Do We Make Reparations? @TwinCitiesPBS | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Often times, resistance to reparations in the North is often because people believe Northern states had no part in slavery. But history shows that slave labor and money from slavery built Minnesota. Here's the history of slavery in Minnesota, the history of the reparations movement, and racial discrimination.

00:00 What is the history of the reparations movement?
01:16 Slave labor's money helped build Minnesota
02:10 Learning where white wealth or stability comes from
02:56 Crowds of thousands threatened Black homeowners
03:13 Katie McWatt, the first Black candidate to run for St. Paul City Council and win her primary, and memories of racist neighbors
04:35 With so much damage, where do we begin to repair?
05:18 Free the Deeds and using art to educate and repair
07:29 Black land ownership as reparation goes back to Emancipation
08:04 White resistance to the word "reparation"

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