Caribbean Community governments are sending a second set of letters demanding European nations to pay trillions of dollars in reparations.
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The region is upping the pressure on Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Denmark to own up for their role in the slave trade, even as researchers are zooming in on the previously unreported role of four other nations that were also beneficiaries. “This time, our primary target is again governments, as they had orchestrated and approved and facilitated the slave trade,” Comissiong told thethis week. “We acknowledge that private institutions like banks, insurance companies, and universities also benefited, but our target here and now is the governments.”
Meanwhile, in recent weeks, Caribbean researchers have come up with actual figures owed to the region and descendants of slavery. The calculations were compiled by the Brattle Group of American economists and consultants with help from Caribbean attorneys, historians, politicians, and history students.
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