This searchable database includes selected 3549 legal documents on reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States (DAEUS).

In January 2025, 118 documents from 2024 were added.  

Documents were gathered through an electronic database search based on the following search parameters: Within the body of the article  (reparation* in the same paragraph with either  "black American" or  "African American" or enslaved or slavery or slave* or "jim crow" or negro! or colored). Documents marked relevant had the word reparations in either the title or the summary.

The documents were not reviewed and may only be tangentially related to reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States. 

Furthermore, it is possible that an inappropriate article is included in the database. If you think an article is racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic or otherwise inappropriate,  please email with the (1) the name of the database and (2) the complete name of the article.

The documents are in the following categories:

  

Type Total
Administrative Decisions & Guidance 102
Arbitration 1
Briefs 204
Cases 216
Expert Materials 18
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources 2647
Legislation (Proposed & Enacted) 133
Regulations (Proposed & Adopted)  10
Trial Court Documents 212
Trial Court  Order 5
3548
Most Relevant 441

 

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