King Charles and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have faced renewed calls for the United Kingdom to pay slavery reparations, which could far exceed £200 billion ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chgom) in Samoa beginning on October 21.
A group of 15 Caribbean governments, as part of the Caribbean Community or “Caricom” organization, have all agreed to table reparations on the Chgom agenda when the group meets.
All three candidates for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General role have supported reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism.
Barbados became Britain’s first slave society in 1661 and the first colony to have a “slave code,” which enshrined in law that African people would be treated as chattel property and not human beings.
Members of the British royal family and UK governments were involved in the trafficking and sale of millions of African people for profit for centuries.
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