Here in Florida, during the British period (slavery was forbidden under Spanish rule), a Scots doctor brought in a large shipment of Minorcan, Greek and Italian slaves. They were technically indentured servants, but he forgot to let them go, as well as forgetting to pay them...In any case, he hired the cruelest slave drivers he could find: blacks from Georgia.
And they were indeed cruel, punishing infractions with beatings and stonings, including one occasion when the slaves were forced to stone to death a boy who had committed the infraction of arriving late at the fields because he was going to the school run by the two priests who had accompanied the group.
The slaves finally escaped by rebelling and seeking the protection of the British Governor at St. Augustine, who ordered that they be freed.
Of course, at the same time, Florida had its own free black population, left over from the Spanish period, as well as many Indians, including, if I'm not mistaken, people who were probably Cherokees.
Reparations - from whom, to whom?