New historical research indicates the Bank of England and Britain's broader financial system had extensive links to transatlantic slave trafficking, with dozens of the bank's founding subscribers and directors identified as investors in the trade.
A newly published register of British slave traders shows Tory and Whig MPs—forerunners of today’s Conservatives and Liberal Democrats—were central to financing and opposing abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, according to The Guardian.
Officials from Jamaica presented a petition to King Charles III, the country's head of state, during a landmark visit to the UK, as a London church service marked the anniversary of the 1781 Zong massacre.
A group of Jamaican officials and campaigners is set to hand a landmark petition to King Charles on Monday, calling for reparations over the legacy of slavery.