I retreated to Barbados with my beloved group of Island Scribes. While completing book manuscript edits in solitude, I was surrounded by the history of enslavement and the fight for reparations.
I've been doing research on Irish slave-ownership in the Caribbean (https://substack.com/@maeveobrienwrites/p-156730271) and have also devised a walking tour in Dublin to show some of the buildings built as a direct result of slave-ownership in the Caribbean. I'm finding, like you, "enlightened" philanthropists and thinkers like George Washington were unashamedly lining their pockets with the profits from human misery.
The UCL database on British slave-owners in the Caribbean to my mind provides a financial template for reparations. We know exactly how much was paid, and to who. Time to claim that money back!!
Such important writing Nicole, thank you.
I've been doing research on Irish slave-ownership in the Caribbean (https://substack.com/@maeveobrienwrites/p-156730271) and have also devised a walking tour in Dublin to show some of the buildings built as a direct result of slave-ownership in the Caribbean. I'm finding, like you, "enlightened" philanthropists and thinkers like George Washington were unashamedly lining their pockets with the profits from human misery.
The UCL database on British slave-owners in the Caribbean to my mind provides a financial template for reparations. We know exactly how much was paid, and to who. Time to claim that money back!!
Thank you for the work that you do. I will look forward to exploring it!