Interesting re-opening of the claim by fourteen Caribbean nations wanting money to compensate their populations for the damage caused by slavery in the period up to 1833.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/caribbean-countries-slavery-compensation-claim?CMP=twt_fd
In any assessment of the claim, will account be taken of the valuable property the populations of the Jamaica, Barbados and other islands in the West Indies have already collectively received? What is the retail value of the island of Jamaica for instance? The descendants of slavery are not indigenous to the West Indian islands, and the transfer of the land titles from the British Crown to the local populations presumably represents a gift worth many billions of pounds.
In any case, only 35,000 individuals were involved in the slave trade. These people are long dead. It might be possible to trace the descendants and seize their assets but this would be a vicious and inhuman thing to so.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/26/caribbean-countries-slavery-compensation-claim?CMP=twt_fd
In any assessment of the claim, will account be taken of the valuable property the populations of the Jamaica, Barbados and other islands in the West Indies have already collectively received? What is the retail value of the island of Jamaica for instance? The descendants of slavery are not indigenous to the West Indian islands, and the transfer of the land titles from the British Crown to the local populations presumably represents a gift worth many billions of pounds.
In any case, only 35,000 individuals were involved in the slave trade. These people are long dead. It might be possible to trace the descendants and seize their assets but this would be a vicious and inhuman thing to so.
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