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07/15/2005:

"2007 will mark 200 years on from the abolition of slavery"

n 2007 the Bicentenary of the British parliamentary abolition of the Transatlantic Slave trade will take place.

Whilst the Bicentenary will be marked by some sort of commemoration, there have been repeated calls for the British government to make reparations for their role in the dehumanization, exploitation and deaths of millions of Africans.

Given that plantation owners in the Caribbean were compensated to the tune of £20 million when slavery was abolished in 1807, it is not an unreasonable request that the descendants of those who suffered at the hands of slavery should also receive compensation.
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