'Sweeping across continents and centuries, this volume o_ers a deeply important collection of essays on the experiences and impacts of slavery and colonialism, as well as the possibilities and challenges of reparative justice. With its roster of some of the world’s finest and most distinguished scholars addressing these topics, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden should be required reading for academics and a general audience alike.'Caroline Elkins, author of Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire'Beginning with Adekeye Adebajo’s magisterial introduction, this volume canvasses the successive calamities for Africa of slavery and colonialism, their contemporary legacies, and the reparations movement’s efforts to interrupt their future transmission. This extraordinary collection is essential reading for anybody seeking to engage with the world-leading scholarship on these critical themes.'Thula Simpson, author of History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present'Professor Adekeye Adebajo, an astute scholar of African affairs, has brought together a talented cast of scholars to produce an encyclopaedic work on the triple challenges that confront the people of the Black Atlantic. This tour de force has probed the innards of its subject, thereby helping readers to understand the battles that lie ahead.'Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College, US'The editor, Adekeye Adebajo, and his multi-disciplinary group of contributors to The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations must be commended for this work. These academics and advocates not only rehearse familiar themes, but also add new perspectives which together form a welcome addition to the body of work explaining the justification for reparations for historical crimes against humanity and the lingering legacies of colonialism.'Professor Verene A. Shepherd, University of the West Indies, and a member of Jamaica’s National Council on Reparations'This book is of uniformly high-quality scholarship and writing. It contains good variation in emphases and represents a wide sweep of historical and contemporary issues surrounding the themes of enslavement and colonialism. The collection marks a significant increase in information, insights, and public discussion about colonialism, enslavement and their legacies from authoritative scholars, many from or based in Africa. It is vital that we have books like this to provide concrete facts, concepts, and perspectives based on a massive amount of accumulated research. It is compelling reading.'Professor Colin Samson, Essex University, EnglandCHOICE Recommended: Lower-division undergraduates through faculty'This edited volume, compiled by Adebajo (Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa), also issues a bold call to imagine new comparative paradigms that make visible the apparatuses of different power regimes in relation to one another, which helps readers to understand the present tensions within and between nations across the Atlantic world. The project is ambitious and transforms the questions researchers ask. As one of the essayists notes, the collection prompts readers to reconsider this era in a different light, shifting the perspective from the three C’s (commerce, Christianity, and civilization) to the three P’s (profit, plunder, and prestige). There is a clear emphasis on showing the particularities of different regimes. One section, for example, includes essays on colonialism in British Africa, French Africa, Belgian Africa, Portuguese Africa, German Africa, Spanish Africa, and Italian Africa... The incredible strength of this collection is that it creates opportunities for fine-grained comparative scholarship.'-- R. Chopra, University of Utah
