Jamaica Seeking $10.6 Billion in Slave Trade Reparations

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Jamaica has put a price tag on slavery and has sent the British government the bill. State officials of the Caribbean nation said they’re asking Great Britain to pay $10.6 billion (USD) in reparations.

The former British colony served as the center of the slave trade with Africans kidnapped, enslaved and forced to work on plantations which produced sugar cane, bananas and other products. That free and inhumane labor greatly enriched the slave owners.

According to the National Library of Jamaica, about 600,000 Africans landed in Jamaica during the slave trade. Britain prohibited trade in slaves in its empire in 1807 but did not formally abolish the practice of slavery until 1834. To compensate slave owners, the British government took out a 20 million-pound loan – or $27.7 million U.S. – and only finished paying off the subsequent interest payments in 2015. Slaves and their descendants have never received compensation.