The author of a new book on the lack of reparations for the 12.5 million people shipped across the Atlantic in the slave trade has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how none of them or their families are yet to be internationally compensated. The trade is described in the book as surely one of the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era – all to help grow the sugar, tobacco, indigo and coffee trades. Many people perished on the African shores or during the voyage. The book “Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History” has also just been translated into French, and its author Ana Lucia Araujo, who is a professor of History at Howard University spoke to us in Perspective.