Activists are using the Antigua Commonwealth summit to pressure the UK for reparations, highlighting the ongoing political and moral reckoning over Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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Activists see meeting as opportunity to demand UK confront role in transatlantic enslavement“The royal family enslaved us! Apologise now! Reparatory justice now!”King Charles and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, will be greeted with messages as they travel through Antigua’s capital, St John’s, to attend meetings at the Commonwealth leaders’ summit next week. On billboards, placards and T-shirts, in letters and at a candlelight vigil for the thousands of Africans trafficked to Antigua and Barbuda during the transatlantic slave trade, the message from the Caribbean will be pervasive: slavery reparations is not an issue they “are going to be able to dodge”. Continue reading...
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