Vient de paraître Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade : A Transnational and Comparative History de Ana Lucia Araujo chez Bloomsbury Academic

Vient de paraître Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade : A Transnational and Comparative History de Ana Lucia Araujo chez Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 256 p. ISBN : 978-1350010604 Prix : 29,95 $.

"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.
This is the first book to present a narrative history of the demands of financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It explores a myriad of written primary sources in several languages, including abolitionist pamphlets, parliamentary debates, petitions by former slaves, newspaper articles, congressional bills, as well as public discourses by black activists and politicians in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The book draws from a transnational approach, associating social and cultural history, in order to grasp a transatlantic system that interconnected three continents for more than three hundred years. The various chapters examine the multiple dimensions of the demands of financial, material, and symbolic reparations, including the period of slavery, the emancipation era, the postabolition period, and the present.
By focusing on the voices of various social actors who identified themselves as the victims of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, this book shows why the demands of reparations have been emphasized or dismissed in public debates held in former slave societies."

Ana Lucia Araujo (https://twitter.com/analuciaraujo_) is a historian of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Her work explores the public memory, heritage, present legacies, as well as the visual culture of slavery. She is Full Professor in the Department of History at Howard University (Washington DC).

Article mis en ligne le 20 novembre 2016 et mis à jour le 5 novembre 2017 (sortie en librairie de l’ouvrage)