Experts estimate ‘accounting of the harm that was done’ by 200 years of chattel slavery would be US$2tn in damages Britain stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, according to new research by a team of international experts. Their report concludes that Barbados’s population of African descent have suffered damages estimated at up to US$2tn (£1.5tn) from 200 years of chattel slavery. Continue reading...

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