Britain's Attorney General Lord Hermer previously helped Caribbean nations prepare legal cases seeking slavery reparations ...

It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The Act made it illegal to buy and sell enslaved people throughout the British colonies. However, while the act ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

The Kenyan head of state told the King that colonial rule had been “brutal ... Charles acknowledged the role of slavery in the British Empire's history.

More Britons are sure that colonies in Africa are worse off ... Estimates of the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £206 billion to a staggering ...

Therefore, as a first step and a first contribution, this research project is based on a new and crucial comparative perspective including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Southern United ...

Only a minority accept that Scotland partnered England to derive its historical wealth from slavery and colonies ...

A slave could become free by converting to ... Over the first 50 years of the 18th century, the number of Africans brought to British colonies on British ships rose from 5,000 to 45,000 a year.

Ireland's oldest university is to begin a two-year investigation into its links with slavery and the British Empire ... and reflect on its complex colonial legacies". For example, TCD's library ...

Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as slavery monuments to boost the “dark tourism” industry on the island. Local activists have led Caribbean demands for reparatory payments for ...