EVENT - Acknowledge and Repair: Why the UK Should Pay Reparations for Slavery

Dr Dennis Hamilton, Laura Trevelyan and CARICOM Ambassador for Grenada Arley Gill, discuss reparatory justice for chattel slavery.

Event details

• Date: Thursday 7 March from 2pm - 5pm 
• Location: The Council Room MA221 (Wulfruna Building), City Campus, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY
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This is a free  Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) event, open to the public and hosted by the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wolverhampton. The panel consists of Dr Dennis Hamilton, Laura Trevelyan and Arley Gill. They will explain why the issue of reparatory justice for chattel slavery is so important, and then take questions from the audience. The event will be introduced by Dr Clare Schofield, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences.

The Acknowledge and Repair event is compered by Dr Dennis Hamilton, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, within the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wolverhampton. Dennis is also a member of the University’s ICRD. He is currently researching the historic role of the British in the Lesser Antilles, and its contemporary legacy and impact on racial inequality in the Dutch Caribbean.

Laura Trevelyan worked for the BBC for 30 years as a news anchor and correspondent. She is now an Honorary Associate Fellow at the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy at the University of the West Indies, and a Trustee of the Trevelyan Grenada Reparations Fund. Laura led the Trevelyans’ public apology to the Grenadian people for the role of their ancestors in enslaving Africans on the island. She encourages families with similar histories to acknowledge their fraught past, and join her in calling on Britain’s government to engage in reparatory justice talks with Caribbean governments.

Arley Gill will attend the event via a live stream from Grenada. He has a background in Maritime Law and is a Grenadian magistrate. Arley was formerly Grenada’s minister responsible for culture, information and ICT, and is currently Chairman of the island’s Spicemas Corporation. He is also Chairman of Grenada’s National Reparations Committee and the country’s Ambassador to CARICOM [The Caribbean Community and Common Market]. CARICOM is an economic and political union of 15 Caribbean countries that were former colonies of different European nation states. Arley advocates for reparatory justice in the Caribbean and globally.

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