The UN – The great-grandson of the nineteenth-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said that he was terrified to find out seven years ago that his ancestors were Jamaica and Guyana’s slave owners.
And Laura Travelian, a former BBC journalist, said that the records of Britain’s slave compensation commission were kept online in the 21st that Sir John John John Travelian Grenada owns a sugarcane tree garden and about a thousand slave people.
They spoke at a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York last week where for the first time the slave owners and former British colonies of the Caribbean sat at the same table that discussed the controversial issues of revenge with the diplomats and experts of these countries.
“It was a historic tihassic event,” Travelian said, who had restored the meeting next to the UN Permanent Forum related to the week -long session of African descent.
About 5 million west Africans have been sent to the Caribbean and the United States to work mainly in the United States, including the South America. The UN human rights chief Bholkar Turk told the Forum that approximately 20 million to 5 million Africans were uprooted for slavery.
Some countries have apologized for their role in slavery, and revenge has become a matter of controversy.
The Geneva -based Human Rights Council has called for a revision, pardon and educational reforms to revise racism against people of African descent. There are 10-point plans for the re-construction trial of the 15-nation-nation-nation Caribbean community, where European countries began with the demands where the slave people were kept for formal pardon and transactions were made.
Turk mentioned in a European Union statement in 2021 that “TRANS-ATANTIC Das is the promotion of trade and the promotion of the African Union and the African Union’s designation” year of trial for Africans and revenge for African descent “.
On Tuesday, the meeting of the slave -billed people and the descendants of the slave owners spoke of his family’s decision to apologize to the traveled grenades and contribute to the Caribbean island’s education in the country.
Travelian said that going to Grenada with the family and “not exactly smooth ferry” apologies, leaving the BBC and revenge preacher. There was a demonstration by a group that thought that apologies were insufficient and the meaning was not sufficient.
Also in the meeting was AD Walker, he said that the DNA test was revealed that he was mainly not only Scots-Irish but also the Nigerian, but he discovered that his Great-Great-Great-grandfather, who had moved to New Zealand, was the owner of Malcolm and African Hawkaripara.
Walker and his sister Kate Thomas said when they learned that they had to do something.
Thomas said he discovered what Travelian was doing and contacted Verren Shepherd, a professor Emeritus and Vice Chairman of the Carrikome restoration commission, who encouraged to start apologizing to the sisters.
In the meantime, Charles Gladstone said that after learning that the father of former Prime Minister Gladston had owned the property with the slave people, he felt “deep feelings of guilt” – and a great act of his advantage life “was originally associated with the past.”
He said he apologized to Guyana and Jamaica and would try to do something “to make the world a better place”.
Although Britain’s role in the abolition of slavery in the 5th was widely taught, Gladstone said, “It is involved in the business” has been completely buried. “History must say, he said, because” the consequences of this crime against humanity are not historical tihassic, they have been felt very, very deeply today. ”
Britain’s deputy UN ambassador James Curuqui participated in the meeting but did not speak. The British Mission, who sought a comment, sent a statement to Parliament on February 26 from Development Minister Anelies Dodds saying that he and Prime Minister Care Starmar “is absolutely clear that we will not transfer and pay cash to the Caribbean.”
Gladstone says supporters of revenge must continue to work together. If thousands of families rise up like him and say, “We want to do something about it,” but there is a possibility that the British government can do something more, “he said.
Tomas agreed. “If we get numbers it can affect the organization and governments to work,” he said. “It will be a lifetime journey I think it’s a great start” “”
Shepherd, who taught at the University of West Indies, said that there was not much apology and some Europeans regretted for slavery, “No one is talking about revenge.”
Grenada National Rejection Commission Chairman Early Gill said, “But he sees a positive movement towards revisible justice worldwide and believes that” we are in a good way to ensure that we are recognizing these crimes against humanity by the power of colon. “
The UN ambassador to Antigua, Walton Webson, who was the president of the Caribbean ambassadors, finished the meeting and said, “We have reached a point where the revenge is no longer forbidden.”
Now, he said, now is the time to “The lips of each child, on each person’s lips” and start taking steps.
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