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The Latest Breaking News from John Gladstone

Antoinette Sandbach’s relatives owned slaves – and so did mine. We have to atone for that as best we can

The former MP’s quest to break the public link with her ancestors is misguided. Better to accept our legacy and work for change, says author and broadcaster Alex Renton

The Guardian - UK

Grenada prime minister calls on Britain to pay slavery reparations: ‘It’s the decent thing to do’

Exclusive: If the UK wants to be a country that demonstrates values of justice, then it should say sorry for its mass enslavement of African people, Dickon Mitchell tells The Independent

The Independent UK

The descendants of a British owner of slaves in Guyana apologize as Caribbean seeks reparations

The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana have apologized for the sins of their forefathers and called slavery a crime against humanity

The Independent UK

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Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations

Irfaan Ali also demands posthumous charges for crimes against humanity for traders and enslavers

The Guardian - UK

President of Guyana demands slavery reparations ahead of apology from plantation owner descendants

Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations

The Independent UK

Family of former PM William Gladstone to apologise for links to the slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

Evening Standard

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Independent UK

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How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt absolutely sick’: John Gladstone’s heir on his family’s role in slavery

Charlie Gladstone on why the only way he can live with his family’s dark past is to turn it into something positive

The Guardian - UK

William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK

Descendants of UK slave owners call on government to apologise

Heirs of Slavery body wants restorative justice to tackle ‘ongoing consequences of this crime against humanity’

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