Reparations for slavery and the slave trade

a transnational and comparative history

Reparations for slavery and the slave trade
Ana Lucia Araujo, Ana Lucia Ar ...
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April 11, 2023 | History

Reparations for slavery and the slave trade

a transnational and comparative history

"Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. European countries have never compensated their former colonies in the Americas, whose wealth relied on slave labor, to a greater or lesser extent. Likewise, no African nation ever obtained any form of reparations for the Atlantic slave trade. Ana Lucia Araujo argues that these calls for reparations are not only not dead, but have a long and persevering history. She persuasively demonstrates that since the 18th century, enslaved and freed individuals started conceptualizing the idea of reparations in petitions, correspondences, pamphlets, public speeches, slave narratives, and judicial claims, written in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. In different periods, despite the legality of slavery, slaves and freed people were conscious of having been victims of a great injustice. This is the first book to offer a transnational narrative history of the financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing from the voices of various social actors who identified themselves as the victims of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, Araujo illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations, including the period of slavery, the emancipation era, the post-abolition period, and the present"--Page [4] of cover.

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Cover of: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
2023, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
in English
Cover of: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
2023, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, Bloomsbury Academic
in English
Cover of: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Reparations for slavery and the slave trade
Reparations for slavery and the slave trade: a transnational and comparative history
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction : reparations in the past and the present
"Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears"
"And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?"
"We helped to pay this cost"
"What else will the Negro expect?"
"It's time for us to get paid"
Epilogue : unfinished struggle.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.3/620973
Library of Congress
E185.89.R45 A73 2017, E185.89.R45A73 2017, E185.89.R45 A73 2017eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 276 pages
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26939221M
ISBN 10
1350010596, 135001060X
ISBN 13
9781350010598, 9781350010604
LCCN
2017004466
OCLC/WorldCat
961003721, 1004564394
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B075SXF7K7

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