Payment doesn’t have to be in cash. Thirty years in self-sufficient prisons might do, raising crops, picking cotton, stamping out license plates, electronics, etc. Set up the prisons so that they would provide a substantial material benefit for society. That would be a novelty for blacks, I know. But it would be their form of reparations for black crime. Whenever I hear a demand that white people pay reparations for something they didn’t do, this is what I think of. Two can play this reparations game.
The vikings had a Law of Four. You gave a slave enough work to do that if he made an extra effort, in essence “overtime” applied against your slave price, and if you busted ass every slave could be free in four years. If you couldn’t do it, you were old, disabled, or lazy. Viking law said slaves were your responsibility to take care of, but if you were lazy, the master put everyones’ portion of meat on their plate (everyone ate together) lazy slaves simply didn’t get any. They could fight for what the dogs got.
Doesn’t conservative mean honoring the old values? ;)