Slavery Reparations?

[mushroom25]

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/jamaica-plans-seek-reparations-britain-over-slavery-2021-07-12/

what are the chances of Jamaica getting £7bn out of our government?

[naomi24]

That's the thought that crossed my mind, ymb.

[Khandro]

If compensation is due to them, it must also be due to people who are descendants of the 19th century Lancashire & Yorkshire working classes (including me!).

I read (TLS letters, 4/06/ 21) " In 1834, Richard Oastler wrote to the Leeds Mercury drawing attention to the cruel employment of children in West Riding mills. Children worked for 13 hours daily with 30 minutes rest. Memorials in Silkstone & Kirkheaton churchyards record the deaths of children as young as 8 in a flooded coal mine & in a textile mill fire. In Marsden persistent physical abuse of "pauper apprentices" was reported.

Children who often had to walk long distances to work were beaten if they erred at their job or fell asleep. Legislation restricting the labour of children to 12 hours daily was eventually passed in 1819.

Of course the history of the slave trade should be taught. So too should the realities of the industrial revolution."

[William51]

Not much. If we pay one country everyone else will also want it.
Anyway, we were not the only country doing it.