Freedmen News Watch · November 6, 2026, 1:20 PM CST
Key Facts
- Britain Slavery Reparations: Why the UK Should Say No (via Briefings For Britain)
Britain Slavery Reparations: Why the UK Should Say No.
This article is based on two earlier pieces that originally appeared in The Telegraph.
Britain’s Prime Minister rose to address a packed House on the subject of Atlantic slavery. He was not a man to put his emotions on display, but this was a subject on which he felt deeply.
The trade, he said, was “the curse of mankind … the greatest practical evil that ever has afflicted the human race … the most extensive calamity recorded in the history of the world”.
He recognised Britain’s share in this “curse”, and declared that the country should “atone” for this “long and cruel injustice”.
Those campaigners who complain that Britain has never officially apologised or recognised its part in the slave trade have probably never read this speech by William Pitt more than two centuries ago. Yet much of their own rhetoric echoes his.
The phrase “crime against humanity” had not been coined, but that is what Pitt was talking about.[1]
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References
- Briefings For Britain. Britain Slavery Reparations: Why the UK Should Say No. ↩
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Freedmen's Bureau Records and Preservation Guides. Primary (official source) ↩
- U.S. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division Case Highlights. Primary (official source) ↩
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