Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
Remedying the 'Past'?

A Selection of Publications by Expert Group members

• articles

Slavery: the Case for Reparations, article by Kwesi Quartey in New African, January 2008.
Slavery: the Case for Reparations (2), February 2008.

'Britain, Slavery and the Trade in Enslaved Africans', by Marika Sherwood.

'Slaves and slavery, 1807-2007: the past in the present', article by Marika Sherwood.

Presentation to the November 2008 Reparations Conference by Marcus Goffe, Jamaican attorney, legal adviser to the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council (Jamaica)

'Are Reparations for Slavery Justified?' by Fernne Brennan, Human Rights Global Focus Group, International Human rights Foundation, India, Volume 2, Number 1, March 2005, pp. 5-17.

• books

Reparations to Africa by Dr. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann discusses the question of what, if anything, the West owes Africa as reparation for the slave trade and colonialism.
Professor Howard-Hassmann has published widely on this and allied subjects. A complete list of her books and articles is available on this website.

After Abolition, by Marika Sherwood, "a provocative book, written with anger and passion. People will argue furiously over it, which is all the more reason to read it." --BBC History Magazine.

The Passionate Advocate by Lord Anthony Gifford QC. In the final chapters the author draws on his experience of living in both the white world and the black world, in presenting a plea for reparation to be made for the damage still suffered by Africans and their descendants as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.

Race, Rights Reparations: Exploring a Reparations Framework for Addressing Trade Inequality’, by Fernne Brennan, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, vol.30, nr 1, Fall 2008.

'Time For a Change. Reforming WTO Trading Rules to Take Account of Reparations', by Fernne Brennan, in J. Dine and A. Fagan (eds.) Capitalism and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2006).