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Why is Britain refusing to pay slavery reparations?
Britain compensated slave owners, not the enslaved. Can an apology without reparations be enough?
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UK commits to 'time-bound' talks on slavery apology
British diplomats are looking to offer reassurance that there is a sense of urgency to deal with the issue, even if a date for doing so is not yet confirmed, Chris Mason writes.
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Miliband says slavery apology will not bring cost for UK taxpayers
Speaking to BBC's Newscast, the foreign secretary says Britain cannot sweep its past "under the carpet".
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King to address slavery in Antigua as PM says he is open to possible UK apology
King Charles III will deliver a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on Tuesday as he concludes his nine-day Caribbean tour.
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Burnham ‘open’ to UK slavery apology, but not reparations: Why now?
The UK PM's statement comes as Commonwealth nations meet in Antigua and Barbuda.
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Burnham 'open' to calls for slavery apology but not reparations
The British government has never formally apologised for slavery despite repeated calls from a number of Commonwealth leaders.
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From slavery to today: The Black women who shaped America
"If you don’t understand the history of Black women, you don’t understand the history of America." Those words from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison open Sasha Bonét's debut memoir, "The Waterbearers". The New York writer traces three generations of Black women in her family: her grandmother Betty Jean, the daughter of formerly enslaved people in Louisiana who went on to raise eleven children; her mother Connie, who sought a middle-class life in majority-white Houston; and Sasha herself, now raising her daughter Sofia in New York.