Truth-Telling as Reparative Justice: The Haitian Revolution

Tue 19 Jan · Online · NW1

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19 January 2027, Online What was the Haitian Revolution? Why is understanding it an important part of reframing the deeply damaging colonial story that situates agency amongst white people and side-lines Black people as passive victims? Why is this reframing important in moving towards repair? Dominant Quaker narratives in the UK have been of white Quaker abolitionists and now- much less comfortably- of white Quakers who were involved in the systems that enslaved and trafficked African people. Why is it important for Quakers to learn about the Haitian Revolution?

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