Britain's Black Debt - Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide Beckles Hilary MCDPaperback / softback
Britain's Black Debt - Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide Beckles Hilary MCDPaperback / softback Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for…
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Britain's Black Debt - Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide Beckles Hilary MCDPaperback / softback
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. While it remains a fractured, contentious and divisive call, it generates considerable public interest, especially within sections of the community that are concerned with issues of social justice, equity, civil and human rights, education, and cultural identity. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement.
Written by a leading economic historian of the region, a seasoned activist in the wider movement for social justice The reparations discourse has been shaped by the voices from these fields as they seek to build a future upon the settlement of historical crimes.This is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean.