Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

by Hilary McD. Beckles

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 976640268X
• ISBN13: 9789766402686
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"