{"id":2010,"date":"2025-02-04T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:46:41","slug":"double-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Slavery and the Case for Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>A public meeting and book launch<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<br \/>\n<strong>Luke Daniels<\/strong>, President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity on Reparations for African Enslavement<br \/>\n<strong>Peter Ashan<\/strong>, Author of <em>Freedom Walks<\/em> on the legacy of enslavement, continuing racism and current rise of fascism.<\/p>\n<p>The abolition of the traffic in enslaved Africans came as a result of a mass movement in Britain and resistance in the Caribbean. Two recently published\u00a0 books reflect these different aspects of the struggle for abolition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Slave-trade Abolition and Leytonstone House: the Sansoms, the Buxtons and Black History<\/strong><br \/>\nby Claire Weiss, Peter Ashan and Geoff Nichols<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<strong>Enslaved Worker Rebellions and Revolution in the Americas to 1804<\/strong><br \/>\nby Mary Turner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Thursday 27th March at 7pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>William Morris Hall, 6-8 Greenleaf Road, Walthamstow E17 6QQ<br \/>\n<\/strong>Just a short walk from Walthamstow Central Station, Victoria Line<\/p>\n<p>Download a <a href=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/walthamstow-meeting-A4-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaflet advertising the meeting&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public meeting and book launch Speakers: Luke Daniels, President of Caribbean Labour Solidarity on Reparations for African Enslavement Peter Ashan, Author of Freedom Walks on the legacy of enslavement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}