Pressure mounting on Britain to pay reparations for transatlantic slave trade

It was an issue which loomed large over the recent Commonwealth summit in Samoa, a gathering of 56 nations, many of whom were once British colonies.

There are growing calls for Britain to pay reparations to them for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

It peaked in the 1700s and saw millions of Africans forcibly transported to British colonies in the Americas, the Caribbean, and other countries where they were sold into slavery

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