If you’re going to have reparations for slavery, it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth, because the number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States.
— Thomas Sowell, Maverick: Jason Riley On The Life And Times Of Thomas Sowell (2020)
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