Nigel Biggar has published two essays that bring to a reader's attention a history of slavery and the British response that calls into question the narratives of racial discord and need for reparations that decolonisation movements (i.e., Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter) proffer. Biggar outlines a vast history of slavery while highlighting anti-slavery movements, which too were not without controversy and compromise. Yet the complex picture Biggar draws for his reader challenges content-thin readings of history. He thus argues "the problem with the assumption that underlies the...
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The McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life is a research institute at the University of Oxford.