{"id":89529,"date":"2026-09-07T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89529\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:07:01","slug":"jamaicas-legal-approach-were-forced-transportation-african-enslavement-lawful-under-english-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89529\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica\u2019s legal approach: Were forced transportation &#038; African enslavement lawful under English law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Jamaica\u2019s legal approach: Were forced transportation &amp; African enslavement lawful under English law?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V38ksi4IxeM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nJamaica\u2019s legal approach: Were forced transportation &#038; African enslavement lawful under English law?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaica\u2019s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the country\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s possible obligation to provide a reparatory remedy.<br \/>\n#Colonialism #Slavery #BritishEmpire<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamaica\u2019s legal approach: Were forced transportation &#038; African enslavement lawful under English law? Eve Irvine is pleased to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[24771,22,23,61,20,21,2192,57553,2126,279],"class_list":["post-89529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-commonwealth","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france-24-guest","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-history","tag-jamaica","tag-slavery","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117230425989960720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}