  This entry focuses on making a case for reparations for contemporary U.S. blacks for the enslavement of their U.S.-enslaved ancestors, partly because slavery was one of the most horrific experiences that said blacks have endured in the U.S., and the one for which the immediate victims of the experience most clearly deserve reparations; and partly because making the case in question nevertheless presents peculiar, difficult, and particularly interesting philosophical problems. As we will see, much of that case will depend on the argument that the injustices U.S. blacks endured after emancipation have caused some of the injuries of the slaves to persist into the present. But there is no reason to suppose that these injustices did not themselves cause damages to their victims, quite apart from causing the damages of slavery to persist, and that these damages may also deserve reparations. In fact, there is good reason to suppose that arguments to that effect may be more important politically than slave-based arguments for black reparations.