Ana Lucia Araujo. Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.

Abstract

Building on her prior pioneering work on the history and legacy of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, Ana Lucia Araujo has now written a wide-ranging overview of the historical and contemporary struggle for reparations. Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History illuminates the deep historical roots of the ongoing demands for governments and institutions to provide symbolic and material restitution to the victims of slavery and their descendants throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. This book traces these international trends through time and space and provides a historical context for the surges in reparations demands in the United States during the 1960s and 1990s, and in more recent political movements in Latin America. It is a book that will enrich current debates surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, controversial monuments and memorials to slave holders and Confederate heroes, and the ongoing social inequalities along racial lines within particular nations and on a global scale.