Tag: reparations
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The case for slavery reparations doesn’t add up
06 January 2025. Nigel for Prospect. Demands by Caribbean nations for compensation ignore historical reality and the achievements of British abolitionism. White British involvement in Atlantic slave-trading and slavery for over a century-and-a-half up to the early 1800s amounted to “the Black Holocaust, the British genocide”, according to Sir Hilary Beckles, historian, vice-chancellor of the…