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An Act acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865, and in Pennsylvania during a portion of that time; establishing the African-American Reparation Study Commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans; making recommendations to the General Assembly on appropriate remedies; and making an appropriation.