‘Everyone needs to change and transform their consciences to take on board the damage of the past.’ Photo: by Tyler Merbler on Flickr
Summit or nothing: Claire Pickard-Cambridge attends a workshop on reparations
‘Repair is not just about money.’
by Claire Pickard-Cambridge
14th June 2024
The thorny subject of reparations for the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans had struck me in the past as a mountain to climb.
But a two-part workshop on reparations organised by Quakers in Bristol in February and March cast a new light on reparations – that they should involve far more than money as a form of compensation. The workshops, led by the charismatic Esther Xosei, a legal specialist and international policy reparations advisor, had powerful messages that helped transform our thinking.
