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So I know there were some plans in the US for reparations for ex-slaves and their descendants, but were shot down by President Johnson during Reconstruction. Since then, there has been no real move on the subject.

What would have had to be different for actual, meaningful reparations to happen no later than 1880? Different President? Different Reconstruction policies? Different end to the Civil War? Or, given the racial attitudes of people at the time, is this an impossibility?
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