King Charles and the UK government have been urged to make public apologies for historical links to the slave trade. The call comes from British former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, whose a…
“We’ve apologized, why can’t the King? Reckoning is coming.
“It’s important to acknowledge that Britain was a leading slave trader. Britain’s economic prosperity, and particularly the Industrial Revolution, was to some degree built on wealth accumulated through slavery.haven’t apologized. Regret is expressed. I think it’s necessary to go further.
Buckingham Palace responded by saying the new King will cooperate with a study of the monarchy’s ancestral links with transatlantic slavery.
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