 Stevens’s argument for slave reparations was simply that the slave holders had committed serious harmful transgressions against the slaves, who consequently had rights for reparation against their masters that could plausibly be satisfied by some of their masters’ land. Today, few would challenge that argument, at least publicly. The argument that many challenge today is that present day U.S. blacks have rights to reparations from contemporary U.S. citizens or the U.S. government because generations ago the U.S. government permitted many U.S. citizens to enslave several blacks. That argument seems to get no support from the undeniable fact that enslaved black ancestors had rights to reparations from their respective masters. People do not have rights to reparations for the wrongful harms others suffer. Two arguments, the harm argument and the inheritance argument, each attempt to circumvent this difficulty.