Memory and the Arts
Literary art, and art in general, is particularly well-placed to impact the individual, spark imagination and act as a signpost to what a new, more just, more socially equal future could look like.
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Reparations Today
Memorialising the Caribbean and the UK’s Shared History
These visible and tangible connections that publicly acknowledge our history are a vital step towards healing and repair.
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History and Healing in the Museum Space
Memorialising is really about confronting trauma in the past. Memorialisation, when done effectively, is about providing space and time for healing. Acknowledging that trauma has happened, honouring the persons who were victimised during that point of trauma and then coming up with a way to heal the fissures in society.
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Barbados’ Efforts to Memorialise Chattel Slavery
Memorialisation is about repair.
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Message from The CARICOM Reparations Commission on International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery
The CRC calls on the relevant European nations to oKer full, unreserved and unconditional apologies, accept responsibility for their role in perpetrating crimes against humanity of native genocide and chattel enslavement in the Caribbean and to repair the lasting consequences of early European expansion and growth.
60% of people in the UK support an apology for slavery – research
Making amends for the injustice of slavery is about strengthening our connections, both within our communities and between the UK and the Caribbean. The Repair Campaign is calling on the UK to do the right thing. Three little words. I am sorry…
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Olivia Grange | Doing right by the ancestors
In tribute to the ancestors, we must continue to pursue reparations for the hundreds of years of chattel enslavement on plantations in this country. It is not enough that the enslavers and their descendants should regret the suffering that slavery inflicted on our ancestors. When you have done something wrong, you must take responsibility for it, apologise and try to set things right. That is really the essence of our demand.
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CARICOM, Chattel Slavery and Indentureship
Indentureship deserves to be acknowledged and addressed as part of the reparations’ agenda, as it is an integral part of the Caribbean history and experience. It has left a lasting legacy and impact on the Caribbean region and its people.
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The King, the Archbishop, and Hereditary Slavery
The hereditary principle of slavery as it relates to the Caribbean is one of the chattel enslavement dynamics that the Caribbean nations and other organisations currently drafting reparative justice claims against the UK might wish to consider more closely.
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The Repair Campaign welcomes the Church of England’s recommendations on reparatory justice
A rare opportunity now exists for an honest conversation in the UK to begin to heal the past.
Rastafari and the Reparations Movement
It is important that Rastafari are at the forefront of the reparations movement because we have been sidelined and overlooked for too long. If you want to support reparations you have to support the Rastafari voices.
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Haitian Vodou faith in the reparations movement
Reparation is rooted in my faith because my faith makes me believe that I have to have the deepest and sincerest respect for all types of life. To me, Vodou can bring that to the top of reparation.
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