Why it is time to honour the forgotten British sailors who fought against the slave trade …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
As recent events have shown, the debate about reparations for enslavement will not be going away. At the Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Samoa, Keir Starmer was met with calls by a number of Caribbean countries to pay them compensation for Britain’s historic role in the slave trade.
One aspect is worth examining, however, for the paradoxes it highlights on both sides.
I believe a strong case is to be made for worthy recognition of what was known as the Preventative Squadron, established in…
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