Jamaica’s legal approach: Were forced transportation & African enslavement lawful under English law?

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the country’s reparations initiative attempts to shift the debate over British slavery from the terrain of political discretion to that of legal accountability. Was the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans in Jamaica ever lawful? Jamaica’s petition therefore asks King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Jamaica, to refer three questions to the Privy Council concerning English law, international law and Britain’s possible obligation to provide a reparatory remedy.
#Colonialism #Slavery #BritishEmpire

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3 comments

  1. We are returning to the tory idea of forced work for young people. Sainsbury’s is taking on young apprentices! Just in time for the Xmas rush. I read that the company laid off thousands of employees. I know it’s not the same as the the news report but it points to the total lack of government support for employees and jobless people.

  2. No one today has to pay anything for crimes they did not commit. One of the dumbest comment ever said is "the sins of the father falls on the son", my father's sins should die with him.

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