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Ex-Tory MP apologises for ancestral links to slavery after threat to sue academic

A FORMER Conservative MP has apologised “for the acts of my ancestors” after an academic named her as a descendant of a merchant with links to…

The National (Scotland)

Ex-Tory MP apologises for ancestors’ links to slavery

Antoinette Sandbach ‘struggling with difficult history’ after initially threatening to sue University of Cambridge over academic’s research

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP's historic family links to slavery raise questions about Britain's position on reparations

“Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.” So noted the eminent Jamaican international jurist Judge Patrick Robinson, when launching the 115-page Brattle Report…

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Women being 'sold' at a market in Ethiopia? Not so fast

In a tweet that has gone viral, a far-right Dutch politician known for his anti-Islam stance has claimed there is a "market" in Ethiopia where Muslim women are being sold, with a video to back it up. In the images, a crowd can be seen surrounding people kneeling on the…

France 24

Antoinette Sandbach’s relatives owned slaves – and so did mine. We have to atone for that as best we can

The former MP’s quest to break the public link with her ancestors is misguided. Better to accept our legacy and work for change, says author and broadcaster Alex Renton

The Guardian - UK

Former Tory MP threatens legal action after being named in slavery research

Former Tory MP said to have raised concerns she was being singled out when there are other living relatives

The Independent UK

‘It stops you cold’: the 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown

The descendants of Ann Joice, separated as part of the sale of 272 people, are at the center of a vital new work

The Guardian - US

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Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research

Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant

The Guardian - UK

‘Who gets remembered and why?’: the exhibition asking uneasy questions about the Atlantic slave trade

Black Atlantic at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum explores how Britain’s role in slavery can be seen through its fine art. Rather than giving simple answers, reflection is its aim

The Guardian - UK

Grenada prime minister calls on Britain to pay slavery reparations: ‘It’s the decent thing to do’

Exclusive: If the UK wants to be a country that demonstrates values of justice, then it should say sorry for its mass enslavement of African people, Dickon Mitchell tells The Independent

The Independent UK

The descendants of a British owner of slaves in Guyana apologize as Caribbean seeks reparations

The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana have apologized for the sins of their forefathers and called slavery a crime against humanity

The Independent UK

‘To solve Manipur, we need flexibility,’ says Samrat Choudhury, author of Northeast India: A Political History

Samrat Choudhury's book maps Northeast India's long journey from isolation to integration, highlighting unresolved issues like autonomy and independent states. Colonial records provide insight into the region's history, while Christianity's quick pick-up and slavery's prevalence are discussed. The author explains why some creative problem-solving is required to sort out festering…

The Hindu

Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write

The Independent UK

President of Guyana demands slavery reparations ahead of apology from plantation owner descendants

Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations

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Slavery stole Africans' ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this

In a speech to mark Unesco’s campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created by 400 years of the transatlantic chattel trade persist to this day. “We can draw a…

Newsroom.co.nz

Paying to be a modern-day slave

The introduction of due diligence legislation is a crucial next step to tackle worker exploitation and modern slavery in supply chains, writes Christina Stringer

The Guardian - UK

UK cannot ignore calls for slavery reparations, says leading UN judge

Exclusive: Patrick Robinson says reparation for transatlantic slavery ‘is required by history and is required by law’

The Guardian - UK

Don’t listen to the critics: reparations for slavery will right historical wrongs

A new report meticulously analyses the true cost of the transatlantic slave trade, showing how past and present are bound together

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Evening Standard

Family of former PM William Gladstone to apologise for links to the slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

The Independent UK

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Guardian - UK

‘A huge human drama’: how the revolt that began on the Gladstone plantation led to emancipation

The Demerara Rebellion failed, but it was a step towards ending slavery in the British empire

The Guardian - UK

How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt absolutely sick’: John Gladstone’s heir on his family’s role in slavery

Charlie Gladstone on why the only way he can live with his family’s dark past is to turn it into something positive

The Guardian - UK

William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

The Independent UK

Thousands of modern slavery cases rejected in Home Office crackdown on ‘bogus claims’

Genuine victims of modern slavery not getting the support they need, charities warn

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