Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

  • SmellyHamWallet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Wasn’t Belgium one of the countries that had the biggest hand in slave trade? I remember reading they were horrific. Yet, they’re barely spoken about in the same sentence.

    • JasSmith@kbin.social
      710·
      1 year ago

      That’s nothing. You should hear about what the Vikings did. And the Romans. And the Sumerians.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        1 year ago

        There’s a actual difference here in two ways. Firstly racialized transatlantic chattel slavery was a massive break from the slavery that had been practiced before in the form of those three adjectives. But also the European mainland suing Scandinavia for reparations, the entirety of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa suing Italy for reparations, and Iraq and Iran suing Iraq for reparations are materially different from some of the poorest countries in the world suing the royal family of a wealthy nation that still has an empire for reparations.