African Resistance Didn't Begin at UN—It Started on Plantations, Says CARICOM Reparations Chair
African Resistance Didn't Begin at UN—It Started on Plantations, Says CARICOM Reparations Chair
Speaking at the reparations conference in Accra, Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles recalled that in 1675, the first generation of Ghanaians in Barbados organized an uprising against slavery, crushed in 1679—with 25 burned alive.
"40% of all ships that took enslaved Africans across the Atlantic experienced a rebellion," Beckles told the gathering. "The resistance started here. They continued on the slave ships. They continued in the colonies."
The conference, with over 80 countries represented, follows the UN General Assembly's March resolution recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
Beckles stressed that the UN resolution was the result of a "global African consciousness" and centuries of resilience.
He urged the world to see returning through Africa's "Door of Return" as part of the Ten-Point Plan for global reparative justice that will shape the 21st century.
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