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Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)

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National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Paying off the loan they took out to compensate the slave owners for their "property" to be more precise.

As repugnant as that was, it was still preferable to the terrible waste of life the USA endured fighting a civil war over slavery.

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