The exploitation of 2.5 million west Africans, and their descendants born into slavery, in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean enriched generations of Britons and the British nation. Reparations Now! offers a concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for these historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants.
The book provides an exploration of how Christianity has thought about what it is to live a human life and asks how Christianity's understanding of being relates to and challenges alternative contemporary accounts as they are mapped and explored in social anthropology.
No history of ethics, and in particular, a history of Christian ethics can be purely 'history'. Rather it is as it should be an argument about how we need to think in order to act well as Christians. We are quite fortunate to have Michael Banners book because it is an incisive contribution to this project.