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Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment needs to be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The most notable demands for reparations have been made in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where slavery was the most pervasive. Caribbean and African states from which slaves were taken have also made reparation demands.

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‘Make it right’: Descendants of slaves demand restitution from Georgetown

By News & Current Affairs, Reparations

One-hundred-and-eighty years after Jesuit priests sold slaves to save Georgetown University from financial ruin, a group of descendants is calling for restitution. By Susan Svrluga, Washington Post — The university’s president has apologized for the sale, and the school has taken steps to make amends. But Georgetown owes its existence to the money made from the sale of 272 enslaved people, argues Georgia Goslee, lead counsel for the GU272 Isaac Hawkins Legacy group. And…

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January 18, 2018
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Spoken Word by Michael Quess Moore at NAARC’s Benefit Reception, New Orleans

By Events, NAARC News, Reparations, Video/Audio

Michael “Quess” Moore’s spoken word performance at the National African American Reparations Commission’s (NAARC) Benefit Reception held at Southern State University at New Orleans on Thursday, November, 30 2017.

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January 17, 2018
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Communiqué: The New Orleans Reparations Gathering

By Docs, Events, NAARC News, Press Releases / Statements, Reparations

November 30 – December 2, 2017, the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) convened a major Reparations Gathering in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A primary goal of the Gathering was to continue the process of creating greater public awareness about NAARC’s Preliminary 10 Point Program for Reparations for African Americans and to receive input, suggestions, recommendations on the Program from constituents from the area/region…

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January 10, 2018
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Ana Lucia Araujo — Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A New Book on the Idea of Reparations

Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A New Book on the Idea of Reparations

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Julie Hawks: What are the principal findings or arguments of your book? What do you hope readers take away from reading it? Ana Lucia Araujo: My book is a narrative history of the demands of financial, material, and, to a lesser extent, symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. I combined the approaches of social and cultural history, and relied on written primary sources in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, which included abolitionist pamphlets, correspondence, parliamentary debates, petitions by former slaves, newspaper articles, and congressional Bills. I included public discourses by Black activists and politicians in western European countries such as France and the United

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January 7, 2018
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