Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice

Argues that the problems posed by historical injustices are best resolved by a reconciliatory view of reparative justice

Ranges in its subject matter from the claims of indigenous people to land stolen from their ancestors to the growing movement for reparations for slavery.

Provides an original and convincing answer to the questions of how citizens can have reparative responsibilities for wrongs committed before they were born, and why descendants of victims may be entitled to compensation for historical injustices such as slavery.