Full Description
This volume demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for crimes against humanity. Authored by eminent scholars largely based in these areas, it contributes to transforming educational curricula globally. This collection is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and enables cross-regional comparisons to be drawn, ensuring that important global events are read from diverse perspectives. The volume is aimed at subject area experts, as well as students in diverse areas of the humanities and beyond who seek a sound introductory reference book to these important historical subjects to which they are often not exposed. The authors thus represent a multi-disciplinary group encompassing diverse fields such as history, international relations, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, literature, and languages. The book introduces readers to foreign-language historical sources — often inaccessible to an English-speaking audience — on these pivotal topics.
Contents
Part I: Introduction: Setting the scene
Chapter 1. A Diagnosis of Global Africa's Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations - Adekeye Adebajo
Chapter 2. Masters and Servants in Barbados and South Africa: From Enslaved Labour to Coerced "Free" Labour in the British Empire - Alan Cobley
Chapter 3. Colonialism: Mamma Italia and Her Imperial Orphan - Patrizia Palumbo
Chapter 4. Reparations for Imperialism: Legacies Beyond Slavery in the British Empire - Stephen Small
Part II: Slavery in Africa
Chapter 5. Central and Eastern Africa - Professor Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Chapter 6. West Africa - Martin Klein
Chapter 7. Southern Africa - Butholezwe Mtombeni
Part III: Slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas
Chapter 8. The British Caribbean - Bridget Brereton
Chapter 9. The French Caribbean - Jaime A. Falomir
Chapter 10. The Dutch Caribbean - Kwame Nimako
Chapter 11. Lusophone America - Carlos Silva Jr.
Chapter 12. The United States - Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Chapter 13. The Role of Women in the Emancipation of North America - Dann J Broyld
Part IV: Colonialism in Africa
Chapter 14. British Africa - Samuel Igba
Chapter 15. French Africa - Douglas Yates
Chapter 16. Belgian Africa - Guy Vanthemsche
Chapter 17. Portuguese Africa - Sandra Sousa
Chapter 18. German Africa - Adam A Blackler
Chapter 19. Spanish Africa - Gustau Nerin
Chapter 20. Italian Africa - Mia Fuller
Part V: Colonialism in the Caribbean and the Americas
Chapter 21. The British Caribbean - Shelene Gomes and Scott Timcke
Chapter 22. The Dutch Caribbean - Rose Mary Allen
Chapter 23. South America - Susan Elizabeth Ramirez
Part VI: The global struggle for reparations
Chapter 24. The Caribbean - Hilary Beckles
Chapter 25. The US - Andrew Maginn
Chapter 26. Britain - Nicola Frith and Esther Stanford-Xosei
Chapter 27. Africa - Adekeye Adebajo
Chapter 28. South America - June Soomer
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