In a speech to mark Unesco's campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created by 400 years of the transatlantic chattel trade persist to this day. 'We can draw a straight line from the centuries of colonial exploitation to the social and economic inequalities of today,' he said.
which teach that some enslaved people benefited from slavery. History must challenge this constant narrative of black bodies merely being machines.In the search for truth and reparation, truth of brutalities inflicted alone is not enough. There must also be truth about the pioneers and innovators of colonized and enslaved societies—such as the 76 black metallurgists—whose ideas changed the trajectory of civilization and who laid the building blocks for growth, change and development.
The simultaneous theft and denial of black innovation has served a purpose for the global north. The Caricom Reparations Commission, notes that one of thewas that there should be"not a nail to be made in the colonies". A fundamental part of the global north's accumulation has been to create captive markets and maintain those markets post-independence. Colonies and post-independence states alike have been actively deprived of the developmental apparatus to create a thriving society.
Resource extraction during this period was not merely centered on sugar, tobacco and cotton. It also drew on intellect and innovation which was stolen from the colonies and used to help build the prosperous nations of the global north. Reparation is not only about money. It is also about recognition. Alongside the names of freedom fighters such as
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