News and views on reparations and Heirs of Slavery
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‘David Harewood: Actor says the government should apologise for slavery’
BBC News, 5 September 2023
‘Folgen des britischen Kolonialismus: Die Erben der Sklaverei’
Taz (Germany), 31 August 2023
‘“I felt absolutely sick”: John Gladstone’s heir on his family’s role in slavery’
Guardian (UK), 19 August 2023
‘I feel ashamed’: UK descendants of slave owners call for reparative justice’
Spears Magazine, 8 August 2023
‘When Alex Renton discovered he was descendant of enslavers...’ (French)
Télérama (France), 8 August 2023
‘Slavery made their ancestors wealthy. Now they’re making amends.’
Christian Science Monitor, 1 August 2023
‘Heirs of slavery to apologise for past wrongs’
ABC (Australia), 28 April 2023
‘British aristocrats ask King Charles to join a slavery reparations movement’
NPR (US), 26 April 2023
‘Heirs of Slavery launched in London to call for UK to engage CARICOM on reparations’
Guyana Chronicle, 25 April 2023
‘Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s History of Slavery’
Areva Martin in Real Time (US), podcast
‘My ancestors profited from slavery’
Alex Renton, Guardian (UK), 24 April 2023
‘Descendants of UK slave owners call on government to apologise’
Amelia Gentleman, Guardian (UK), 24 April 2023
‘One of King Charles' relatives pushes for U.K. families that profited from slavery to make amends’
CBS News (US), 24 April 2023
‘Laura Trevelyan on the Importance of Reparations'
PBS (US), 20 April 2023
‘More than money – the logic of slavery reparations’
Olivette Otele, Guardian (UK), 31 March 2023
‘My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade’
Laura Trevelyan, Guardian (UK), 25 March 2023
‘British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada’
André Wright, Guardian (UK), 27 February 2023
‘My forefathers did something horribly wrong’
Paul Lashmar, Guardian (UK), 4 February 2023
‘Meet the sleuths researching their slave-trading ancestors’
Madeleine Spence, The Sunday Times (UK – paywall), 25 July 2021
‘Alex Renton on exposing transatlantic slave traders – in his own family’
Sathnam Sanghera, The Times (UK – paywall), 30 April 2021
‘Examining the slave trade – Britain has a debt to repay’
Jonathan Guthrie, Financial Times (UK – paywall), 28 June 2020
‘How Richard Atkinson discovered his family’s dirty colonialist secret’
Richard Atkinson, The Times (UK – paywall), 4 April 2020