You cannot threaten people into silence about their own history
Reform UK, a British political party, has proposed introducing visa restrictions on nationals of countries that are seeking reparations for the transatlantic slave trade. Britain ran the most profitable slave trading enterprise in Atlantic history. Reparations are described as the legal and moral claim that when a party causes demonstrable, documented harm to another and benefits materially from that harm, the law requires repair.
The Bank of England holds records of 20 million pounds sterling compensation paid in 1833 to slave owners, not to the enslaved. The enslaved received nothing except instruction to continue working for free for six more years under a system called apprenticeship. That debt to the British taxpayer was only fully repaid in 2015.
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Reform UK, a British political party, has proposed visa restrictions on nations seeking reparations for the transatlantic slave trade. This move by
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