Let’s ask the the ancestors of the many blacks who owned slaves and see what they’ll pay.
As a friendly amendment to your comment—should this be changed to:
“Let’s ask the the DESCENDANTS of the many blacks who owned slaves and see what they’ll pay.”
And now that you have mentioned it—I seem to recall that there were a large number of okra plantations in the coastal regions of North and South Carolina that were owned by black families for generations, and that their okra cultivation required far far more laborers than did cotton or other southern crops. How difficult would it be to track down the descendants of those black slaveholders, and get them to pay their fair share, based on the number of slaves their forebears owned? (Of course, it might get complicated if those slaveholding ancestors, and/or their descendants, intermarried with descendants of black slaves emancipated during or after the Civil War.)
Also as a friendly amendment to your suggestion, we should also check with the descendants of the Native Americans who lived in the antebellum South, and owned a significant number of black slaves. They might be asked to chip in a few dollars to the cause......
/sarc.