Spakit, 6 months ago

@LeftistLawyer I was wrong - debt paid off in 2015

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-calls-for-reparations-for-britains-legacy-of-slavery-in-the-caribbean

Is there precedent for reparations?

As slavery ended in British Empire in the 19th C, parliament approved the payment of 20 million pounds–not to formerly enslaved Africans, but to slave owners as compensation. The UK took out a loan to pay reparations in 1833 and only paid off the debt in 2015.