Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Courtney Pierre Joseph, assistant professor of history and African American studies at Lake Forest College; Matthew Miller, senior reporter at MLive; and Ryan Huey.
On May 20, 2022, Catherine Porter, Constant Méheut, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan of The New York Times published “The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood.” The article examined how Haiti became the only country in the world “where the descendants of enslaved people paid reparations to the descendants of their masters.” The authors also detailed