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1600-1900's was pretty brutal all around.Quote:
'Repair the Damages That Our Ancestors Experienced': Jamaica to Seek More Than $10 Billion In Reparations from Britain Over Atlantic Slave Trade
Jamaica plans to seek reparations from Britain for its role in the Atlantic slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A former British colony independent since 1962, Jamaica was a grim destination for captured Africans who were part of the slave trade conducted by both the British and the Spanish. After the native Amerindian people of the island were exterminated by the Spanish through slavery and transmitted diseases, Africans were enslaved to work on sugar cane plantations.
According to the National Library of Jamaica, about 600,000 Africans were shipped to the Caribbean nation and exploited in dire conditions as money was funneled to wealthy plantation owners living in Britain.
Lizzie should bail out now.Quote:
"Our African ancestors were forcibly removed from their home and suffered unparalleled atrocities in Africa to carry out forced labour to the benefit of the British Empire," she added. "Redress is well overdue." It's estimated that a total of 20 million African people were enslaved during the slave trade.
The petition will be submitted to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and is connected to a motion filed by Jamaican lawmaker Mike Henry to seek more than $10 billion. The figure is Henry's estimate of how much slave owners were compensated when slavery was abolished in Britain in 1834 and approximately 800,000 enslaved Africans were freed. Britain only finished paying off the interest on the loan used to cover the payments to slaveholders in 2015.
Jamaica was seized from Spain by Britain in 1655 and remained a British colony for more than 300 years. Queen Elizabeth remains Jamaica's head of state, although Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said he would introduce a constitutional amendment to replace the Queen with a non-executive president as head of state.
"I am asking for the same amount of money to be paid to the slaves that was paid to the slave owners," said Henry, a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party.
Let limp wristed Chuck handle this.
He should suggest a repatriation.
Send everyone back on a first class ticket with a couple of bucks.
Them belly full.....
