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The plantation known as Farm Pen once stretched across 760 acres of flat, fertile land not far from here. The estate was owned in the late 18th century by a British banking family that... -November 24, 2023 at 04:00 am EST - MarketScreener
Stephen Castle (The New York Times) writes on the complex case of Caribbean nations seeking reparations for the damages of slavery and the resistance they face from the European countries that built their economies on the exploitation of their resources and people. For example, Britain, Castle writes, has already paid compensation over the abolition of…
The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates
They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step. It’s the marshaling of scholarship for a political aim: payback.
Calls to rein in investing based on environmental and social principles are growing louder.