Book report on 'Britain's Black Debt' by Professor Sir Hilary McD. Beckles.This article is a report on Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Indigenous Genocide, a book by Professor Sir Hilary McD. Beckles. The copy of the book I have is a softcover (paperback) version which costs two hundred and twenty-five TT dollars. The ISBN number is 978-976-640-268-6. This book is published by University of West Indies Press. It was published in Mona, Jamaica in 2013. The manuscript consists of fifteen chapters and two hundred and ninety-two pages. Professor Sir Hilary McD. Beckles is a Barbadian historian and academic who currently serves as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He is also vice-president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route project and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Cultures and Globalization series. He is a leading spokesperson in the fight for European reparations for the crimes committed against humanity in the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of African peoples. He is also the author of several other books, including A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State, Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society, and Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados. Professor Sir Hilary McD. Beckles is of African and Barbadian descent and therefore his work may have a pro-African and/or pro-Caribbean bias. In Britain's Black Debt, Professor Beckles sets out to argue for reparations to be made by Britain to the English. -speaking the Caribbean for the West African colonies that they enslaved a...... middle of paper ......the West Indies during the time of the 17th to 19th centuries. Professor Beckles' aim is to raise awareness of the crimes committed by the British and to successfully argue that Britain should be obliged to provide reparations to the Caribbean by accepting culpability for their actions; their crimes against humanity. It seems that he seeks to argue and inform in order to create a multitude of people who would share his sense of justice. I am extremely confident that Professor Beckles achieved his goal because he organized very legitimate evidence to present a terribly compelling argument. ----------------------Why was it convincing----------------------- - -------. The topics were very fitting for the title of the book. The contents of this manuscript accurately reflect the definition of the Caribbean that we see today..