Britain refused to apologize for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
October 29, 2024 | | Africa, African American Ethnic Heritage, Black Unemployment, Civil Rights, U.K. News
| British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not apologize for British participation in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, according to Downing Street. Caribbean leaders have argued for some financial recognition of the legacy of slavery. Estimates for compensation from campaigners and academics have ranged from £205 billion or 221,724,693,350.00 U.S. Dollars to nearly £19 trillion 19,000,000,000,000 in U.S. Dollars. Commonwealth Heads participated in a meeting in Chogm, Samoa. The meeting which was held from October 21-26. Some 56 countries from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific were represented. Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the head of the British government. News that neither an apology nor reparations are on the agenda could put Prime Minister Starmer on a collision course with other nations. Around 12 million Africans were enslaved during the years of the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1640 and 1807, British ships transported about 3.4 million Africans across the Atlantic. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe. |
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| British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer |