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JP MORGAN 黑奴
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My name is Deadria Farmer-Paellmann. I am Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group a not-for-profit organization that examines approaches to securing restitution for injuries inflicted upon oppressed people. I was also lead plaintiff in class action litigation against JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank and 18 other companies due to their historical roles in the enslavement of Africans.
I wish to thank Alderman Dorothy Tillman and the Judiciary Committee for your bold leadership in holding modern companies accountable for their complicity in slavery through this hearing and your prior passage of the Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance.
I thank you all for this opportunity to contribute to the general understanding of slavery through my testimony.
I come before you today to inform you of the dangers of the merger of JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank with Bank One an Illinois-based Bank, if JP Morgan Chase does not pay reparations as demanded by slave descendants.
First let me say that my role in the struggle for slavery began as a law student at New England School of Law, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1997. I went to law school specifically to develop a case for slavery reparations. I thought the case would be against the federal government for the forty-acres and a mule promised in General Shermans Field Order 15 during the Civil War. However, due to legal hurdles in litgating against the federal government, including sovereign immunity, I began focusing on corporations and private estates that were built on slavery, as targets for reparations demands.
I took a class called Race and the Law, taught by Robert V. Ward, now Dean of Southern New England School of Law. I choose to present a case for reparations that required me to research my family roots to link myself to a particular company. To conduct the complicated genealogy research required to trace enslaved ancestors, I referred to the book,Black Genealogy, by Charles L. Blockson. Blockson suggested that one source of tracing enslaved ancestors was slave life insurance policies. He directs readers to Aetna Incorporated, the Insurance Company of North America, and Lloyds of London, as sources of such policies because they used to write them.
I took a class called Race and the Law, taught by Robert V. Ward, now Dean of Southern New England School of Law. I choose to present a case for reparations that required me to research my family roots to link myself to a particular company. To conduct the complicated genealogy research required to trace enslaved ancestors, I referred to the book,Black Genealogy, by Charles L. Blockson. Blockson suggested that one source of tracing enslaved ancestors was slave life insurance policies. He directs readers to Aetna Incorporated, the Insurance Company of North America, and Lloyds of London, as sources of such policies because they used to write them.
