We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Prof Trevor Burnard

Ep 57: Whiteness and the Royals - Prof Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull and Director of the Wilberforce Institute. The author of several books including 'Jamaica in the Age of Revolution' and The Atlantic World, 1492-1830, he recently curated a special forum in the journal, Slavery and Abolition on Black Lives Matter and Slavery, and is a member of the senior management board of the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre. He joins me to discuss the Royal family's visit to the Caribbean, those historic links to slavery and whether reperations might be on the cards..