Calls for reparations are as old as emancipation. Will global powers finally listen?

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries.

In Jamaica, which became a British colony in the 1650s, the government has begun a push for reparations, seeking redress for nearly two centuries of slavery on the Caribbean island. 

Officials announced the effort in July, with one legislator suggesting that the government seek roughly 7.6 billion British pounds, or roughly $10.4 billion in compensation from Britain. An official amount has yet to be publicly confirmed.

“Our African ancestors were forcibly removed from their home and suffered unparalleled atrocities in Africa to carry out forced labor to the benefit of the British Empire,” Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sport, told Reuters over the summer. “Redress is well overdue.”

Proponents of reparations argue that companies, individuals and governments that profited from slavery and the slave trade should provide various forms of restitution. In June, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet released a report on racial injustice that included support for reparations, but several countries, including the U.S. and the United Kingdom, were notably absent from the discussion when the topic was raised during the U.N. General Assembly in September.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/calls-reparations-are-old-emancipation-will-global-powers-finally-list-rcna9800


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