Women in Haitian Resistance
These two revolutionary women provide merely a few examples of the many ways women were central to the Haitian revolution.
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Dive Into History
Haitian History at the Centre of Caribbean Reparatory Justice
Breaking down how Haiti is central to reparatory justice work.
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Public support for slavery reparations and formal apology grows – but majority unclear on full extent of Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery
A new poll commissioned by The Repair Campaign shows a gulf in public knowledge about Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. The majority of those polled were unable to correctly answer questions on this topic.
Honouring Our Ancestors: Women as Everyday Revolutionaries
Caribbean women, notably black women had to consciously and unconsciously create ideologies that liberated them, even momentarily… we can feel proud because our ancestors live through us.
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The Importance of Honouring Our Ancestors
Janique Dennis is an Instructor of academic literacies and PhD candidate in Literature at the University of The West Indies. Janique is initiated into Ifá, out of Yoruba in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Three Lesser Known Stories of Caribbean Resistance
As The Repair Campaign marks March 25, The UN International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Chattel Slavery, we believe it is equally important to honour these ancestral freedom fighters by remembering the numerous and continual waves of resistance led by indigenous people and enslaved Africans since the very beginning of European colonisation in the Caribbean.
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The Unique Brutality of Chattel Slavery
“One of the things that the transatlantic slave trade did was to associate enslavement with African heritage … It was the first time that that had become a justification for enslavement.”
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The Truth about 1833 Abolition
“Abolition was not abolition. Abolition in 1833 was the abolition of an institution but a continuation of a practice.”
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The Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans
Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million enslaved people were shipped from Africa, with 10.7 million arriving in the Americas making the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans the “largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history.”
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