British 'heirs of slavery' back reparations
Election
Originally published by Citizen Digital — Read the original article →
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Caribbean nations campaigning for slavery reparations have won support from an unexpected source — the descendants of some of Britain’s most prominent families to have benefitted from the slave trade.
As prime ministers, courtiers and aristocrats, the Gladstone, Lascelles and Trevelyan families were at the heart of the governing elite down the decades.
They accumulated significant wealth from slavery through the ownership of plantations in the West Indies and South America.
