About the Book: Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025
Compelling and timely Tirthankar Roy
Essential reading David Eltis
Many now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies
for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. Why is this
claim being made now? How far does it make sense? And, more generally, how can
historic wrongs be righted?
Reparations removes the sloganeering from a newly-fashionable cause, sets the
issue in its proper historical context, and mounts an ethical counter-argument.
The natural sequel to Nigel Biggars bestselling and widely acclaimed
Colonialism: A