I think the family members of those killed or wounded in the civil war should get reparations from those freed.....
Lots of white people died to make sure blacks became recognized as full human beings. I know that some people say other reasons were in play but freedom was the number one reason.
Not only did whites die to give blacks their freedom, but there were holes in entire families when dads, brothers and uncles did not come back. In my own family, two brothers died at Vicksburg and were buried in a mass grave with no personal grave marker of recognition for their service and death. Their mother got a pittance of a pension from the government.
An entire family suffered the loss and generations of their offspring are missing.