Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1) Study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans living in Burlington as a result of the institution of slavery, including both the transatlantic and domestic “trade” that existed from 1565 in colonial Florida and from 1619 through 1865 within the other colonies that became the United States, and that included the federal and state and local governments that constitutionally and statutorily supported the institution of slavery; and 2) Study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans living in Burlington as a result of the de jure and de facto discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present, including economic, political, educational, and social discrimination; and the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery and the discrimination on living African Americans descending from slavery in Burlington;
