Jamaica to Petition Queen for Billions in Reparations over Atlantic Slave Trade
Simon Kent 13 Jul 2021
Jamaica plans to seek billions of pounds in reparations from the UK as compensation for the Atlantic slave trade.
Olivia Grange, the culture minister in Jamaica, said a petition will be sent directly to the Queen by the attorney general to begin the action.
She said Jamaica was a center of the global slave trade, with the Spanish, then the British, forcibly transporting Africans to work on plantations of sugar cane, bananas and other crops, Reuters reports.
“We are hoping for reparatory justice in all forms that one would expect if they are to really ensure that we get justice from injustices to repair the damages that our ancestors experienced,” Grange told Reuters in an interview at the weekend, adding her voice to a global drive on the subject.
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