Reparations for Slavery: A Reader is a collection of essays on the topic of reparations for slavery in the United States. Unlike many other readers on such topics, this book includes a substantial number of essays designed to provide the entire discussion with an historical context by giving the reader a vivid sense of the injuries inflicted by slavery, its aftermath, and the continuing history of state-supported discrimination.

Contributions by: Thaddeus Stevens, James Forman, Hugo Bedau, David Horowitz, Ernest Allen Jr., Robert Chrisman, Robert K. Fullinwider, Stephen Kershnar, Nicholas Rescher, Samuel Scheffler, George Sher, Jeremy Waldron, Janna Thompson, Dalton Conley, Martha Minow