For readers wanting to go deeper on specific topics, the following books and articles are particularly recommended.
On the history of slavery: Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death; John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World; Seymour Drescher, Abolition.
On the West Africa Squadron: Bernard Edwards, Royal Navy versus the Slave Traders; the Slave Voyages database for the underlying statistics.
On the reparations debate from both sides: Hilary Beckles, Britain’s Black Debt (the case for); Alfred Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con (balanced overview); Jeremy Waldron, Liberal Rights (philosophical critique of historical claims).
On Caribbean development: the World Bank and IMF country reports for individual Caribbean nations; Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid; the UNDP Human Development Reports which provide comparative data on Caribbean development outcomes.
On the legal framework: the CARICOM ten-point plan and associated documents at caricomreparations.org; the Equality Act 2010; the Human Rights Act 1998.
