Jamaica Petitions

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Jamaica has petitioned King Charles III to refer three legal questions about the Transatlantic slave trade to a London court, asking whether the enslavement of Africans was unlawful under English law at the time, whether it constitutes crimes against humanity under international law, and whether...

Jamaica's Minister of Culture Olivia Grange is leading a reparations initiative that reframes Britain's historical enslavement of Africans as a legal violation rather than a political discretionary matter, according to the France 24 segment. The effort challenges whether the capture, transportation, and chattel enslavement of...