# Quote — Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

> To this day, the only Americans who have ever received government restitution for slavery were white enslavers in Washington, D.C., whom the federal government compensated after the Civil War for their loss of human property.

- Author: [Nikole Hannah-Jones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones.md)
- Book: [The 1619 Project: Born on the Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water/to-this-day

## More from this book

> White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.

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> While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened

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> If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

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