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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. 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. 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. Written by a leading economic historian of the region, a seasoned activist in the wider movement for social justice and advocacy of historical truth, Britain's Black Debt looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. Weaving detailed historical data on Caribbean slavery and the transatlantic slave trade together with legal principles and the politics of postcolonialism, Beckles sets o
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Hilary Beckles
Barbadian biographer (born 1955)
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Sir Hilary Beckles launches new book unmasking Europe’s legacy of plunder and poverty
Internationally acclaimed economic historian, social justice and minority empowerment activist, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, last week launched his latest publication, a new book exploring how successive governments have systematically suppressed economic development in their former colonies and have refused to accept responsibility for the debt and development support they owe the Caribbean.
Published by The UWI Press, How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty, is said to be a continuation of the ground-breaking work Sir Hilary began in Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide.
Strategically timed, it was launched last Friday (February 25) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of two of the Caribbean’s foremost works on economic history – Sir Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and
George Beckford’s Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World.
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In addition, it fits within the context of the 60th year of Independence of Jamaica and Trinidad and