Reparations march in London in 2014. Paul Quezada-Neiman/Demotix. All Rights Reserved.
This letter was originally published under the title "Public Statement by Civil Society Organizations in Europe and the Americas Representing People of African Descent on Britain’s Historical Involvement in the Transatlantic Traffic of Enslaved Africans and Its Far Reaching Impacts"
Articles appearing this past weekend in both the Guardian and Independent newspapers in Britain reveal the shocking scale of British “slave ownership” found in scores of official records which have found that thousands of contemporary Britons, including Prime Minister David Cameron, are related to “slave owners” who received huge sums of compensation when the “trade” was abolished in 1833.
