> The average person has no ancestors who owned slaves, and the only benefits they got were things like cheaper goods and services. Added up over a lifetime, it

> The average person has no ancestors who owned slaves, and the only benefits they got were things like cheaper goods and services. Added up over a lifetime, it's probably not a lot. The average person benefitted from compound accumulation of capital. After hundreds of years of compound interest, its probably unfathomably large. > But some people come from ancestors who made a LOT of money off slavery, and the benefits of that have been passed down to them one way or another. If those people can be identified then someone may lodge a claim against their assets. From what I learned in Black World Studies, the fruits of slavery are largely considered to have been spread through society in a way that can't be traced and reconstructed because everything is tainted.