National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

  • SmellyHamWallet@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Wasn’t Belgium one of the countries that had the biggest hand in slave trade? I remember reading they were horrific. Yet, they’re barely spoken about in the same sentence.

    • JasSmith@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s nothing. You should hear about what the Vikings did. And the Romans. And the Sumerians.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        There’s a actual difference here in two ways. Firstly racialized transatlantic chattel slavery was a massive break from the slavery that had been practiced before in the form of those three adjectives. But also the European mainland suing Scandinavia for reparations, the entirety of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa suing Italy for reparations, and Iraq and Iran suing Iraq for reparations are materially different from some of the poorest countries in the world suing the royal family of a wealthy nation that still has an empire for reparations.