Why should the UK apologise over its role in the slave trade? // TRAIN BRAIN

Why should the UK apologise over its role in the slave trade?

Should Britain apologise for its role in the industrial trafficking of millions of enslaved African people across the Atlantic?
It is a grim episode of UK history that the UN recently declared the gravest of crimes against humanity.
But, say campaigners, what would be the point of saying sorry without meaningful reparative justice?
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