Science, Medicine & Engineering
Landmark
Hilary Beckles
born 1955
Historian and leader of the reparations movement
Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Barbados Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A historian of slavery and Caribbean society who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies.
Beckles chairs the CARICOM Reparations Commission, and his book Britain's Black Debt (2013) set out the Caribbean case for reparations.
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