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The Big Payback: The Case For Reparations For Slavery And How They Would Work Marcus Ryder Faber & Faber

At the abolition of the slave trade two centuries ago, the British government paid huge amounts of compensation to slave-owners. Only in 2015 did British taxpayers stop paying off this debt.

How is it...

At the abolition of the slave trade two centuries ago, the British government paid huge amounts of compensation to slave-owners. Only in 2015 did British taxpayers stop paying off this debt.

How is it that slave-owners were paid compensation from our taxes, yet the enslaved and their families were not? Why should the descendants of former slave-owners still...

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  • Number of pages Number of pages 160
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Year of publication Year of publication 2025
  • Publisher Publisher Faber & Faber
Genre: World History
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At the abolition of the slave trade two centuries ago, the British government paid huge amounts of compensation to slave-owners. Only in 2015 did British taxpayers stop paying off this debt.

How is it that slave-owners were paid compensation from our taxes, yet the enslaved and their families were not? Why should the descendants of former slave-owners still benefit from inherited wealth while the successors of the victims of slavery receive nothing, and may have even paid towards the debt of compensation through their taxes?

Beginning with these simple but startling questions, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder explore the burning issue of how best can we resolve the inequality resulting from 400 years of the enslavement of African people and the ongoing racism still suffered by millions across the world.

Talking to reparation experts, economists, politicians, and anti-racism campaigners, including Bell Rebeiro-Addy, Robert Beckford, Kenneth Mohammed and Kehinde Andrews, they investigate how reparations can work, and how we can help to make them happen.

Pages: 224, Dimensions: 13.5x13.5cm

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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Type
General History
Theme
World History
Language
English
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Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
160
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Publication Date
2025
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ISBN-13
9780571380015

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