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BRITAIN’S BLACK DEBT : Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
By Beckles, Hilary McD
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Book Description
Brings together the evidence and arguments that the general public and expert policymakers have long called for. It is at once an exciting narration of Britain's dominance of the slave markets that enriched the economy, and a seminal conceptual journey into the hidden politics and public posturing of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency
- Introduction: My Journey with Slavery and Reparations
- Part 1
- 1. The Principles and Politics of Reparations
- 2 Exterminate the Savages: Genocide in the Windwards
- 3. King James’s Version: Royal Caribbean Slave Voyages
- 4. Not Human: Britain’s Black Property
- 5. The Zong Massacre: Jamaica-Bound Africans Murdered
- 6. Prostituting Enslaved Caribbean Women
- 7. Criminal Enrichment: Building Britain with Slavery
- 8. Dividends from the Devil: Church of England Chattels in Barbados
- 9. Earls of Harewood: Slave Route to Buckingham Palace
- 10. Slave Owners in Parliament and the Private Sector
- 11. Twenty Million Pounds: Slave Owners’ Reparations
- Part 2
- 12. The Case for Reparations
- 13. “Sold in Africa”: The United Nations and Reparations in Durban
- 14. British Policy: No Apology, No Reparations
- 15. The Caribbean Reparations Movement
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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