One hundred and eighty-eight years after full emancipation, the UWI-based Institute argues that land ownership and productive enterprise are not a domestic footnote to the reparations claim — they are its foundation.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 1, 2026 - The reparations argument is usually aimed outward — across the Atlantic, at the treasuries that grew fat on stolen labour. The P.J. Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy has used Emancipation Day 2026 to aim it somewhere considerably less comfortable: homeward.
