Hilary Beckles
Title
Hilary Beckles
Birth Date
1955
Birthplace
Barbados
Primary Sources
Beckles, H. (2021) How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty. University of the West Indies Press. https://www.uwipress.com/9789766408695/how-britain-underdeveloped-the-caribbean/
Beckles, H. (2020). An Epistemic museum for modernity. Overland, 240, 49–51. https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-240/feature-an-epistemic-museum-for-modernity/
Beckles, H. (2019). Running in Jamaica: A Slavery Ecosystem. The William and Mary Quarterly, 76(1), 9–14. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0009
Beckles, H. (2017) 'An Unfeeling Traffick', In The Intercolonial Movement of Slaves in the British Caribbean, 1807-1833. Yale University Press.
Beckles, H. (2013) Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide. UWI Press. https://www.uwipress.com/9789766402686/britains-black-debt/
Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V., (2013) Trading Souls: Europe's Transatlantic Trade in Africans. Ian Randle Publishers. https://ianrandlepublishers.com/product/trading-souls/
Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V., (2013), Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans. Ian Randle Publishers. https://ianrandlepublishers.com/product/saving-souls-the-struggle-to-end-the-transatlantic-trade-in-africans/
Beckles, H. (2004). Great House Rules. Ian Randle Publishers,
Beckles, H. (1989) Natural rebels: a social history of enslaved black women in Barbados. Zed Books.
Beckles, H. (1989). White servitude and Black slavery in Barbados. University of Tennessee Press.
Beckles, H. (2021). The University and Slavery: Reflections upon the History and Future of the University of the West Indies. In J. Bhabha, M. Matache, & C. Elkins (Eds.), Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (pp. 75–82). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1f45q96.9
Beckles, H. (2021). The Great Durban Betrayal: Global Africa, Reparations, and the End of Pan-Africanism. In A. Adebajo (Ed.), The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers (pp. 58–70). Manchester University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2vm39mv.6
Beckles, H. (2020). An Epistemic museum for modernity. Overland, 240, 49–51. https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-240/feature-an-epistemic-museum-for-modernity/
Beckles, H. (2019). Running in Jamaica: A Slavery Ecosystem. The William and Mary Quarterly, 76(1), 9–14. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.1.0009
Beckles, H. (2017) 'An Unfeeling Traffick', In The Intercolonial Movement of Slaves in the British Caribbean, 1807-1833. Yale University Press.
Beckles, H. (2013) Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide. UWI Press. https://www.uwipress.com/9789766402686/britains-black-debt/
Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V., (2013) Trading Souls: Europe's Transatlantic Trade in Africans. Ian Randle Publishers. https://ianrandlepublishers.com/product/trading-souls/
Beckles, H. and Shepherd, V., (2013), Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans. Ian Randle Publishers. https://ianrandlepublishers.com/product/saving-souls-the-struggle-to-end-the-transatlantic-trade-in-africans/
Beckles, H. (2007). The Wilberforce Song: How Enslaved Caribbean Blacks Heard British Abolitionists. Parliamentary History, 26(4), 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1353/pah.2007.002
Beckles, H. (2004). Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems. Ian Randle Publishers.Beckles, H. (2004). Great House Rules. Ian Randle Publishers,
Beckles, H. (1997). Capitalism, Slavery and Caribbean Modernity. Callaloo, 20(4), 777–789. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.1997.0070
Beckles, H. (1993). Caribbean Freedom. Ian Randle Publishers,Beckles, H. (1989) Natural rebels: a social history of enslaved black women in Barbados. Zed Books.
Beckles, H. (1989). White servitude and Black slavery in Barbados. University of Tennessee Press.
Secondary Sources
Davis, A. J., Daniels, R., Jackson Sr, J., Glover, D., Hutchinson, E. O., Lee, S. J., ... & National African American Reparations Commission. (2024). Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future. University of Illinois Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jj.11498415
Araujo, A. L. (2023). How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty, by Hilary McD. Beckles. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 97(1-2), 216-217. https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/97/1-2/article-p216_50.xml
DaCosta, K., Grey, M. N., & Beckles, H. (2022). Sir Hilary Beckles in Conversation. American Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 39–61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27290674
Mohammed, P. (2000). ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired. Feminist Review, 65(1), 22-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/014177800406921
Mair, L. M. (2006). A historical study of women in Jamaica: 1655-1844. University of the West Indies Press.
Extra Resources
Beckles, H. (October 24, 2024). Global calls for reparations are only growing louder. Why is Britain still digging in its heels?. The Guardian. Accessed March 25, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/24/britain-caribbean-slave-trade-commonwealth-summit
Beckles, H. (July 3, 2024). Slave trade and women: a forgotten history. The UNESCO Courier. Accessed March 25, 2025. https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/slave-trade-and-women-forgotten-history
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the eminent historian professor Sir Hilary Beckles in Barbados'. Sir Hilary Beckles: Reparations for slavery (August 2, 2021). HARDtalk. BBC Sounds. Accessed May 31, 2023.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1n61
Carribbean Reparation Commission. Homepage. Accessed May 31, 2023. https://caricomreparations.org/
Repairing the nation: The Meaning of reparations to Global Africa - Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (January 17, 2014). University of Johannesburg YouTube Channel. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvltuAensY
Reparation Prime Ministers (August 6, 2016). UWITV. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uOlEpfsPB0&t=497s
Beckles, H. (July 3, 2024). Slave trade and women: a forgotten history. The UNESCO Courier. Accessed March 25, 2025. https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/slave-trade-and-women-forgotten-history
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the eminent historian professor Sir Hilary Beckles in Barbados'. Sir Hilary Beckles: Reparations for slavery (August 2, 2021). HARDtalk. BBC Sounds. Accessed May 31, 2023.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1n61
Carribbean Reparation Commission. Homepage. Accessed May 31, 2023. https://caricomreparations.org/
Repairing the nation: The Meaning of reparations to Global Africa - Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (January 17, 2014). University of Johannesburg YouTube Channel. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvltuAensY
Reparation Prime Ministers (August 6, 2016). UWITV. YouTube. Accessed December 10, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uOlEpfsPB0&t=497s
Collection
Citation
“Hilary Beckles,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/209.