Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative His

Description: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade by Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Ana Lucia Araujo 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ana Lucia Araujo is Professor of History at Howard University, USA. She is the author of several works on the history and memory of slavery, including Shadows of the Slave Past (2014). Table of Contents Introduction: Reparations in the Past and the Present1. Greatest Riches from Our Blood and Tears2. "And What Should We Wait of these Brutish Spirits?"3. "We Helped to Pay this Cost"4. "What Else Will the Negro Expect?"5. "Its Time For Us to Get Paid"Epilogue: Unfinished StruggleNotesBibliographyIndex Review Araujos history offers a compelling review of the rationales made for reparations payments, the historical actors who made such claims, and historical events that motivated their political demands … Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade is an insightful and expansive history of enslavement that reveals the interconnected nature of the Atlantic world from the origins of enslavement to the present day. * Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective *The book is absolutely indispensable and makes an important contribution to what Araujo concludes is an unfinished struggle. * The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History *What is so clear in this important and timely book is that many people keep making moral claims even as they are repeatedly, rudely, and firmly rejected by those in power … While the focus of the book is on reparation claims, Araujo puts those claims in the context of the broader movement for economic and social empowerment of people of African descent. It is this comprehensive and broad story that makes Reparations the best book yet on reparations for slavery … As others take up the difficult moral questions it raises, such as who should pay and why, this book will be at the center of discussions of ways in which the past burdens the present. * New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids *In this insightful and compelling study, Ana Lucia Araujo shows the importance of a transnational and comparative approach to examining the ways in which slave societies throughout the Americas presented the case for reparations. * The North Carolina Historical Review *Araujo has cemented herself as a senior historian thoroughly in command of her craft … In addition to the U.S., nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean makes an appearance. While focused on reparations, the book also serves as a global primer on slavery and emancipation … Overall, Araujos book offers a valuable contribution to scholars of the African Diaspora. * Black Perspectives *A wide-ranging overview of the historical and contemporary struggle for reparations ... A book that will enrich current debates surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, controversial monuments and memorials to slave holders and Con-federate heroes, and the ongoing social inequalities along racial lines ... Readers of many varieties will bene?t from Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade as a classroom text, research tool, and narrative guide to the evolution of one of the most contentious issues of our times. It will broaden the scope of intellectual discussions because of its international orientation, and it will deepen readers appreciation for the long history of the struggle. * The American Historical Review *In brisk, highly accessible prose, Araujo presents the reader with the story of this fragmented, discontinuous, transnational tradition of moral argument. * Journal of Modern African Studies *Araujo is the first scholar to examine reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade comparatively and transnationally, drawing on a broad range of texts in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish … An important book for all collections. Summing Up: Essential. All libraries. * CHOICE *This is a book Ive been waiting for -- a timely and overdue account of the centuries-long cry for reparations, written by a gifted historian of transatlantic slavery. Ana Lucia Araujo has brought valuable context, perspective, and learning to one of the urgent issues of our time. * Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh, USA and author of The Slave Ship: A Human History (2008) *The trans-Atlantic debate about reparations for slavery has long needed a serious historical explanation. Now, in Ana Lucia Araujos book, we have the answer. This original, sweeping study, grounded in meticulous research, explains how and why reparations have become so pressing a modern-day issue. It is essential reading for everyone concerned – whatever their viewpoint. * James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York, UK and author of The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery (2011) *Ana Lucia Araujos book on slavery reparations movements reaches across time and space. She considers enslavement, emancipation, and the continued refusal of every single slave-owning society in the Atlantic world—the USA, Britain, France, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain, especially—to address the centuries of theft that made them wealthy and built the modern global political economy. Professor Araujos erudition is unbounded, and her clear, readable prose will make this book an important and useful addition to the toolkits of academics, students, and activists. * Edward E. Baptist, Professor of History, Cornell University, USA and author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2016) * Promotional A narrative history of the demands for financial, material and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Review Quote "What is so clear in this important and timely book is that many people keep making moral claims even as they are repeatedly, rudely, and firmly rejected by those in power ... While the focus of the book is on reparation claims, Araujo puts those claims in the context of the broader movement for economic and social empowerment of people of African descent. It is this comprehensive and broad story that makes Reparations the best book yet on reparations for slavery ... As others take up the difficult moral questions it raises, such as who should pay and why, this book will be at the center of discussions of ways in which the past burdens the present." - New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids "In this insightful and compelling study, Ana Lucia Araujo shows the importance of a transnational and comparative approach to examining the ways in which slave societies throughout the Americas presented the case for reparations." - The North Carolina Historical Review "Araujo has cemented herself as a senior historian thoroughly in command of her craft ... In addition to the U.S., nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean makes an appearance. While focused on reparations, the book also serves as a global primer on slavery and emancipation ... Overall, Araujos book offers a valuable contribution to scholars of the African Diaspora." - Black Perspectives "Araujo is the first scholar to examine reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade comparatively and transnationally, drawing on a broad range of texts in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish ... An important book for all collections. Summing Up: Essential. All libraries." - CHOICE Promotional "Headline" A narrative history of the demands for financial, material and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Feature Gives readers an insight into how demands for reparations have arisen and have been addressed throughout history Details ISBN135001060X Pages 288 ISBN-10 135001060X ISBN-13 9781350010604 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle A Transnational and Comparative History Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.36209 Media Book Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-11-02 Short Title Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade Language English Author Ana Lucia Araujo UK Release Date 2017-11-02 NZ Release Date 2017-11-02 Illustrations 12 bw illus Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2017-11-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137545145;

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