Hilary Beckles recalls when he was a child that “it was normal to see a 15-year-old white boy on a horse driving 100 black people to work on the plantation”. Such social and economic legacies of slavery are inescapable in Barbados, a former British colony. In the UK, however, they have been “brushed under the carpet”, says Sir Hilary, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies.
希拉里•比克爾斯(Hilary Beckles)回想他小時候，「看到一個15歲的白人男孩騎著馬趕著100個黑人到種植園幹活是很正常的」。在前英國殖民地巴貝多，奴隸制的這類社會和經濟遺產是不可逃避的。然而在英國，西印度大學(University of the West Indies)校長希拉里爵士表示，這些遺產被「藏起來了」。
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