Araujo's history offers a compelling review of the rationales made for reparations payments, the historical actors who made such claims, and historical events that motivated their political demands … Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade is an insightful and expansive history of enslavement that reveals the interconnected nature of the Atlantic world from the origins of enslavement to the present day.

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

The book is absolutely indispensable and makes an important contribution to what Araujo concludes is an 'unfinished struggle.'

The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

What is so clear in this important and timely book is that many people keep making moral claims even as they are repeatedly, rudely, and firmly rejected by those in power … While the focus of the book is on reparation claims, Araujo puts those claims in the context of the broader movement for economic and social empowerment of people of African descent. It is this comprehensive and broad story that makes Reparations the best book yet on reparations for slavery … As others take up the difficult moral questions it raises, such as who should pay and why, this book will be at the center of discussions of ways in which the past burdens the present.

New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids

In this insightful and compelling study, Ana Lucia Araujo shows the importance of a transnational and comparative approach to examining the ways in which slave societies throughout the Americas presented the case for reparations.

The North Carolina Historical Review

Araujo has cemented herself as a senior historian thoroughly in command of her craft … In addition to the U.S., nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean makes an appearance. While focused on reparations, the book also serves as a global primer on slavery and emancipation … Overall, Araujo's book offers a valuable contribution to scholars of the African Diaspora.

Black Perspectives

A wide-ranging overview of the historical and contemporary struggle for reparations ... A book that will enrich current debates surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, controversial monuments and memorials to slave holders and Con-federate heroes, and the ongoing social inequalities along racial lines ... Readers of many varieties will bene?t from Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade as a classroom text, research tool, and narrative guide to the evolution of one of the most contentious issues of our times. It will broaden the scope of intellectual discussions because of its international orientation, and it will deepen readers' appreciation for the long history of the struggle.

The American Historical Review