Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade

A Transnational and Comparative History

Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2023 | 2nd edition
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29767-8 (ISBN)

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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. Ana Lucia Araujo shows that these calls for reparations have persevered over a long and difficult history. She traces the ways in which enslaved and freed individuals have conceptualized the idea of reparations since the 18th century in petitions, correspondence, pamphlets, public speeches, slave narratives, and judicial claims. Taking the reader through the era of slavery, emancipation, post-abolition, and the present day and drawing on the voices of various of enslaved peoples and their descendants, the book illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations.

This new edition boasts a new chapter on the global impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the seismic effect of the killing of George Floyd, calls for university reparations and the dismantling of statues. Updated throughout, this edition includes primary sources, further readings, and many illustrations.

Ana Lucia Araujo is Professor of History at Howard University, USA. She is the author of Slavery in the Age of Memory (2020), Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic World (2010) and Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage and Slavery (2014).

Introduction: Reparations in the Past and the Present
1. Greatest Riches from Our Blood and Tears
2. “And What Should We Wait of these Brutish Spirits?”
3. “We Helped to Pay this Cost”
4. “What Else Will the Negro Expect?”
5. “It’s Time For Us to Get Paid”
6. Reparations in the 21st Century
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-29767-4 / 1350297674
ISBN-13	978-1-350-29767-8 / 9781350297678
Zustand	Neuware