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Westminster Abbey, London
[Manuel Weber / CC]
THE Church of England’s bid to address historic links to slavery must be the start of a wider conversation for British society, a campaigner said today.
A report said that a £100 million investment fund set up to address the wrongs of the past was too small and slow, setting a £1 billion target for “healing, repair and justice.”
A funding programme was announced in January last year for investment, research and engagement to “address past wrongs.”
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
SUE TURNER is appalled by the story of the only original colonising family to still own a plantation in the West Indies
BOB NEWLAND relishes a fascinating read as well as an invaluable piece of local research
