Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that “there was no slavery in Australia” is at odds with the historical record
By Thalia Anthony & Stephen Gray
August 6, 2020
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August 6, 2020
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‘So much to learn’: The untold stories of slavery in Canada
This 1786 painting, titled “Portrait of a Haitian woman,” was done by François Malépart deBeaucourt and is believed to be an enslaved woman named Marie-Thérèse Zémire at age 15.
TORONTO — A pregnant teen escaping captivity in a wintry Quebec. A young woman forced to pose nude for a painter in Montreal. The son of a […]
August 6, 2020
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The Myth of the Peaceful Plantation
THE WHITEWASHING OF HISTORY
By Wayne Curtis
A few years ago I was working with a family that wanted to build a rum distillery on their land—a 2,000-acre sugar plantation that their ancestors had acquired in the 1850s. They insisted to me from the outset that it not be called a sugar plantation but rather a “sugar […]
August 6, 2020
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Apologists for Slavery and Against Reparations Always Deserve Absolute Responses!
By Earl Bousquet
With Reparations in the air everywhere now more than ever on both sides of the Atlantic following the killing of George Floyd and the US Black Lives Matter protests, apologists for the heirs and successors of the benefits of the Slave Trade and against growing Reparations are working overtime to undermine the increasing […]
July 30, 2020
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July 26, 2020
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Dollars and Sense…
If Emancipation Was Free, How Much Will Reparations Cost?
By Earl Bousquet
As we get ready to observe another Emancipation Day holiday here and in most Caribbean territories that suffered from Slavery, the question most being asked in 2020 is: Will we get Reparations soon?
The question is understandable, given the way the Reparations cause has mushroomed across […]
July 26, 2020
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Reparations to Black Americans for Slavery Gain New Attention
The House looks to approve for the first time a commission to study compensating for slavery and longtime discrimination
By Jacob M. Schlesinger
Weeks of racial-justice protests are pushing the concept of reparations for Black Americans from the political margins toward the center of the national debate, with policy makers from Capitol Hill to city halls weighing […]
July 20, 2020
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Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler
A brown-skinned, blue-blooded response to demands for Britain to pay its Black Debt…Time for CARICOM to up the Reparations ante!
by Earl Bousquet
Last Saturday morning I watched and listened to a video recording of Britain’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Asif Ahmad, laying out, as best he could, Her Majesty’s Governments official positions on issues relating to […]
July 20, 2020
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Barbados’s Ambassador to CARICOM talks about regional Reparatory Justice Campaign
Amb. David Commissiong
By Anesta Henry
In the coming months and years ahead, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be fleshing out an internationalist dimension of its Reparatory Justice Campaign.
Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong said the campaign will be striving for a world-wide transformation of centuries-old relationships between the peoples of the world; […]
July 18, 2020
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Statue of Black Protester Is Raised in Place of Bristol Slave Trader
Protesters threw a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbor during a Black Lives Matter protest in June.Credit…Ben Birchall/Press Association, via Associated Press.
By Mark Landler
LONDON — Jen Reid had never marched in a Black Lives Matter protest before she took to the streets of Bristol, England, on June […]
July 18, 2020
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Facing America’s History of Racism Requires Facing the Origins of ‘Race’ as a Concept
When we look back on 2020, the emblematic photos of the year will undoubtedly include images of crowds gathered around toppled, spray-painted statues. The indictment of these monuments has focused the country’s attention on how the history of slavery in the United States casts a long shadow that stretches all the way […]
July 16, 2020
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Reparations as Racially Progressive Economics
The international outcry over police brutality and racial injustice towards Black Americans have amplified a myriad of underlying issues, from the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow laws to modern mass-incarceration and high unemployment. The severity of the financial impact on the entire nation is still unknown. But with each economic shock millions of […]
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