Should Britain apologise for its role in the industrial trafficking of millions of enslaved African people across the Atlantic?
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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?
Andy Burnham has re-opened a huge debate, and any talk of reparations is political kryptonite. Just as the King, whose own family grew immensely wealthy from the profits of slavery, tours the Caribbean.
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