Abstract
Discussing the essence of reparative history, the author articulates the need to go beyond an examination of the impact of colonialism (for good or ill) or a simplistic inclusion of cultural minorities into the national story. Instead she urges an examination of the agency and influence of peripheries’ struggles – rebellions and resistance in the colonies – such as the Haitian revolution, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Morant Bay Uprising, the Urabi Revolt on the metropole itself. How did they shape British domestic criticism of empire and ultimately ideas about liberty and independence? Where, she asks, is the acknowledgement of the agency of those who struggled against empire and slavery in present day debates about what constitutes British values.
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