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Britain's black debt : reparations for Caribbean slavery and native genocide / Hilary McD. Beckles

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Author:
Beckles, Hilary 1955-  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Caribbean Area
West Indies, British
Date:
2013
Notes:
NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Introduction : My journey with slavery and reparations -- Britain's black property -- The Zong massacre : Jamaica-bound Africans murdered -- Prostituting enslaved Caribbean women -- Criminal enrichment : building Britain with slavery -- Dividends from the Devil : Church of England chattels in Barbados -- Earls of Harewood : slave route to Buckingham Palace -- Slave owners in Parliament and the private sector -- Twenty million pounds : slave owners' reparations -- The case for reparations -- '"Sold in Africa" : the United Nations and reparations in Durban -- British policy : no apology, no reparations -- The Caribbean reparations movement
Topic:
Black people--Reparations  Search this
Reparations for historical injustices  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
Slave trade--History  Search this
Slavery--Law and legislation  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1026151