Reparations for slavery in international law : transatlantic enslavement, the maangamizi, and the making of international law / Katarina Schwarz

Englisch

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

2022

xx, 263 Seiten

Includes bibliographical references (237-256) and index

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Schwarz, Katarina: Reparations for slavery in international law. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. - 283 pages

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Schwarz, Katarina: Reparations for Slavery in International Law. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022. - 1 online resource (289 pages)

978-0-19-763639-8 hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-19-763641-1 (Fernzugriff) epub, 978-0-19-763642-8 (Fernzugriff) online, 978-0-19-763640-4 (Fernzugriff) updf

*Völkerrecht / Sklaverei / Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich / Transitional Justice

*Slavery -- Law and legislation -- History ; Reparations for historical injustices ; Restorative justice

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: K3267

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 342.08/7;

From the 'transatlantic slave trade' to the maangamizi -- The maangamizi and the making of international law -- Adjudicating the 'past' : the impact of time on reparability -- Towards a theory of reparatory justice -- Expanding understandings of reparatory justice through multiple modalities of redress --The causal chains connecting historical enslavement and contemporary redress -- Reparatory justice in transition.

"The debate over reparations for transatlantic enslavement is not new. The movement for redress has a pedigree predating legal emancipation to the years of enslavement. It finds voice at the grassroots and filters up. It speaks through Belinda's 1783 petition to the Massachusetts legislature for an annual pension from the estate of her ex-captor. It underlies the thousands of signatures penned by previously enslaved persons on petitions demanding pensions for their years of unfree labour. It is written in André Rebouças' 1875 Democracia Rural Brazileira and in Brazil's 1884 Dantas Bill (No 48) calling for the granting of land to freed populations. It suffuses the continuing history of the transatlantic system of chattel enslavement from its inception. It is a persistent struggle championed by the subaltern against mainstream denials"--

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