Britain’s Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!

By Michael Banner

by Simon Webb 14th February 2025

A few years ago, a relative of mine was contacted by a man with whom he shared his surname. ‘We’re not related,’ the visitor explained, ‘but my ancestors worked on your ancestors’ plantations in Jamaica.’ The Caribbean visitor was a historian, and when I was a child in the 1960s it seemed that the only people in England who understood the transatlantic slave trade were historians.