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I'm Chris Mangiapra. I'm a professor of history and also the chair of the Department of Studies

in Race Colonialism and diaspora at Tufts University in Boston. I'm the author of the piece that

you're about to listen to. I've been doing research on the history of plantations for many years.

In 2017, through doing just the work of the historian digging in archives and actually online,

I discovered something I could hardly believe, which was a notice published by the UK treasury

saying that in fact the bonds that were taken out in order to pay slave owners in the British Empire

all the way back in the period from about 1835 to 1838, that those bonds were just being

finally redeemed in 2015. That's what got me interested in figuring out the deeper story. It's

out of that that this article emerged. There's a longstanding movement that's been going on for

the last 250 years and there have been waves of mobilization and activism around truth telling,

asking for an apology, an official apology from the British government, which has never come,

and then asking for reparations. The 1990s were a big moment of that in Britain with Bernie Grant.

It turns out that our time is also another big moment. I see this article as part of a moment,

maybe part of a movement. I look around to see what's happening in Britain and from the other

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