HILARY McD. BECKLES is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide; A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928; and Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean.
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A. Shepherd is a social historian and director of the
Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies. Her many
publications include Caribbean Slavery in
the Atlantic World (co-edited with Hilary McD. Beckles) and Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage
from India to the Caribbean.