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Caribbean Life, A BQ ug. 16-23, 2019 27
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (seated left), vice-chancellor of The University
of the West Indies (The UWI) and Dr. David Duncan, chief operating offi cer
& university secretary, University of Glasgow, shake hands following the
signing of the Memorandum of Understanding at The UWI Regional Headquarters,
Kingston, Jamaica on July 31, 2019, to partner in a reparations
strategy including the establishment of the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for
Development Research. Witnessing the event are C. William Iton (left), university
registrar, The UWI and Peter Aitchison, director of communications
& public affairs, University of Glasgow. The University of the West Indies
Caribbean benefts from
slavery reparations
By George Alleyne
The University of the West Indies
has inked an agreement for reparations
that is said to be the first such deal and
one that gives an indication of a form
compensation may take for centuries of
unpaid labor stemming from the Trans-
Atlantic slave trade.
At the end of last month UWI entered
into an historic agreement with the University
of Glasgow (UG) for £20 million
(US$ 24.2 million) that will go towards
funding of research to promote development
initiatives to be jointly undertaken
with UWI over the next two decades.
“The funds will facilitate the operations
of a jointly-owned and managed
institution to be called the Glasgow-
Caribbean Centre for Development
Research. The Centre will target and
promote solutions to Caribbean development
problems in areas such as medicine
and public health, economics and
economic growth, cultural identity and
cultural industries, and other 21st century
orientations in Caribbean transformation,”
UWI stated.
Led by Vice-Chancellor, Hilary Beckles,
UWI had begun negotiations with
UG for compensation since last year
after that Scottish university had published
a document admitting to its culpability
for slavery by benefitting donations
by slave owners.
“Between the 1780s and 1880s it
received millions of pounds in grants
and endowments from Scottish and
English slave owners that served to
enrich and physically expand the near
600-year-old university,” the agreement
signed by Dr. Beckles and Dr. David
Duncan, University of Glasgow’s chief
operating officer.
In its 2018 statement UG estimated
“the present-day value of all monies
given to the university which might
have been fully or partly derived from
slavery to be in the order of tens of millions
of pounds (One pound sterling =
US$1.21), depending on the indexation
formula”.
“The evil of slavery has been stitched
into the very fabric of Glasgow for
almost 200 years: Buchanan Street,
Glassford Street and Ingram Street are
named after some of the most notorious
exploiters of the slave market while
Jamaica, Tobago and Virginia are similarly
commemorated,” the UK Guardian
newspaper had commented shortly after
UG published its report.
UG’s £20 million funding as its effort
at reparative justice carries huge symbolism
as the British government’s
compensation pay out to slave owners
for loss of their slave labour at the abolition
of English slavery in 1833 was £20
million.
That is where the similarities end
however, because the equivalent value
today of the money paid out in 1833
was so high that England’s government
managed to finally repay the loan it had
taken out to compensate slave owners
only in 2015.
The total bill for slave owners at abolition
of slavery was £47 million. Along
with the £20 million loan the British
government had taken out, it was decided
that slaves would be kept in bondage
giving free labour to plantation and
other slave owners for another five years
to pay off the remaining £27 million
under a system termed ‘Apprenticeship.’
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