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...

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Main Author: Araujo, Ana Lucia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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