Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery? (Political Theory Today) - Softcover

Thompson, Janna

 
9781509516421: Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery? (Political Theory Today)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509516425 ISBN 13: 9781509516421
Verlag: Polity, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history’s most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were subjected to forced abduction, misery and death as part of the brutal Atlantic slave trade. However, since the perpetrators are long dead, should current generations make reparation for this historic injustice?

In this book, Janna Thompson uses three case studies – France’s treatment of Haiti, Britain’s role in the African slave trade, and the plight of African Americans ‒ to address these questions. She makes a nuanced case for the necessity of reparations, but argues that the exact form they take should vary from case to case, depending on factors both principled and practical.

This engaging book is a highly readable introduction to the issues for students and general readers grappling with the complexities of reparative justice and our responsibility for the darkest aspects of our past.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janna Thompson is a professorial fellow in the Politics and Philosophy Department at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509516425
ISBN 13 
9781509516421
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
140
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