Reparations : Slavery And The Tyranny Of Imaginary Guilt – Nigel Biggar

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Does Britain owe reparations for slavery? Nigel Biggar, former Regius Professor of Moral Theology at Oxford, argues that it does not. He points out that slavery was practised across the world, that its contribution to the British economy was modest, that Britain spent heavily over decades to abolish the slave trade, and that present-day outcomes in former slave societies depend largely on other factors such as governance.

A provocative contribution to a heated public debate, from the author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.