September Newsletter Roundup
The Governments, The Church and The King: Who’s Ready to Talk?
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From the 1661 Slave Code to Reparatory Justice: Barbados Confronts the Legacy of Empire – Copy
This image illustrates a view from settlements set up in Antigua by Moravian missionary occupation in the early 19th century. Here, this Moravian settlement with a view on Cedarhall set up a church in 1822 providing mandatory beginning education for enslaved persons. Missionary education in the lead-up to the abolition of chattel enslavement instructed the gift of freedom and civilisation to African populations as gifts from the British Empire.
August Newsletter Roundup
Justice in the Making: STORIES from the reparations movement.
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Barbados Newsletter 2026
Barbados comes to reparatory justice with pain, but also with responsibility. The 1661 Slave Code, passed on our soil, helped give legal form to a lie that African people could be treated as property.
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From the 1661 Slave Code to Reparatory Justice: Barbados Confronts the Legacy of Empire
PARIS | For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on its books. On Thursday, the lower house of Parliament voted to wipe it from French law.
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June Newsletter 2026
Guyana’s growing reparatory justice movement, featuring Eric Phillips of the Guyana National Reparations Committee, plus the latest news including Barbados’s reparations estimate, France’s colonial artwork debate, and a French family’s historic apology for their role in transatlantic slavery.
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May Newsletter 2026
Guyana’s growing reparatory justice movement, featuring Eric Phillips of the Guyana National Reparations Committee, plus the latest news including Barbados’s reparations estimate, France’s colonial artwork debate, and a French family’s historic apology for their role in transatlantic slavery.
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CARICOM 10 POINT PLAN UPDATE: a new manifesto for repair
Actors in the reparatory justice movement continue to take leaps and strides in advancing the fight for repair. See more from this month’s round-up below.
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Reparations in the News May 2026: Onwards and forwards
Actors in the reparatory justice movement continue to take leaps and strides in advancing the fight for repair. See more from this month’s round-up below.
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France’s parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code, with tears and history in the chamber
PARIS | For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on its books. On Thursday, the lower house of Parliament voted to wipe it from French law.
France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery
For almost 180 years after France abolished slavery, the Code Noir (Black Code) allowing enslaved humans to be treated as property and worked, beaten, sold, raped or killed, remained in place.
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SKNYPA Hosts Historic Youth Parliament Sitting on Reparatory Justice
The St. Kitts National Youth Parliament Association, in collaboration with The Repair Campaign, hosted a special Youth Parliament Sitting focused on Reparatory Justice on Thursday, May 7, 2026, at the National Assembly Chambers. This debate brought to the fore the voices and thoughts of young people as they debated one of the region’s most significant justice movements.
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