The Jamaican government has announced plans to file a petition on slavery reparations with the King during a visit to London.
The petition will ask Charles, as Jamaica’s head of state, to refer three questions about transatlantic chattel slavery to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which is the Caribbean island’s highest court of appeal.
Jamaica, which was a British colony until 1962, was a hub for the transatlantic slave trade with as many as one million Africans transported to the Caribbean island between the 1500s and the 1800s.
Now, Jamaica’s Culture Minister, Olivia Grange, is leading a delegation to London which will
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