Introduction: Reparations in the Past and the Present 1. Greatest Riches from Our Blood and Tears 2. “And What Should We Wait of these Brutish Spirits?” 3. “We Helped to Pay this Cost” 4. “What Else Will the Negro Expect?” 5. “It’s Time For Us to Get Paid” Epilogue: Unfinished Struggle Notes Bibliography Index
A narrative history of the demands for financial, material and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.
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).
Araujo’s 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, Araujo’s 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 I've 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 Araujo’s
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 Araujo’s 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
Araujo’s 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)*
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