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Slavery’s legacy prompts calls for reparations

21 September 2022

“The sequel to that history of [UK colonial] repression and disavowal has been poverty and uneven progress [in the Caribbean]. So calls for reparations consider this wide story and its micro-level consequences in their activism,” said Professor Matthew Smith (UCL History).

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