The big payback : the case for reparations for slavery and how they would work / Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Lenny, author.

Ryder, Marcus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 2025.

Summary:

"An eye-opening manifesto on why reparations are the only way for the UK to address racism by Black British Lives Matter writers Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder. 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 slaveowners 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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Flags, chains and truth

British slavery ended 1 February 2015

Humpty Dumpty's problem with definitions

The end of racism

What did slavery ever do for us?

Doing the maths

Sins of our fathers (and mothers)

Reparations versus charity

Making Wakanda a reality

Don't mention the war

The trillion-dollar question (plus another 20-ish trillion)

Not every dumpling makes the soup

The name's Lenny, spelt with a silent "K"

What next?

What can we do?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0571380018

9780571380015

OCLC:

1484790393

Publisher Number:

CIPO000267743