Jamaica minister backs slavery reparations as petition filed to the King

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A delegation from the Caribbean island will file a petition asking the King to refer three questions about transatlantic chattel slavery to the judicial committee of the Privy Council, which remains the former British colony’s highest court of appeal, on Monday.

Delegation members also have a meeting with the British Museum to discuss the repatriation of cultural artefacts taken from Jamaica.

Jamaica’s minister of culture, gender, entertainment & sport Olivia Grange said: “Up to 2015, Britain was paying the slave masters, because we were being considered property.

“The question really should be: if in modern times we’re still paying back the slave masters for the ‘property’ that was our people, our ancestors, for ‘property’ that was because of the abolition of slavery, then why shouldn’t we be pursuing some remedy at this time?”

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