Britain is sued by 14 Caribbean nations for the 'damage' it did through slavery – even though country was first in the world to abolish the trade

• The coalition meets in St Vincent today to discuss claim for reparations
• Targets are UK, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
• But it says Britain should pay the most because it was most heavily involved
• Says slavery's legacy still lingers with range of issues from poverty to illness
• Claim's being prepared by UK law firm who won millions for Mau Mau victims

Migration: A map shows the main transatlantic routes out of Africa during the slave trade from 1500-1900


Big business: By the 1660s, British involvement had expanded so rapidly in response to the demand for labour to cultivate sugar in Barbados and other British West Indian islands that the number of slaves taken from Africa in British ships averaged 6,700 per year

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The billions they would get from this

But slavery is what built those countries truth to be said...

Good.

These countries would be nothing without slavery and thievery.

I could use some paper

Yas sue them.

promo

What

wtf!!

Not Spain They need the money

Honestly though this is dumb... The people of today have nothing to do with what happened in the past...

Get that coin.

Thinking they can get any money from us

Just because their economies are suffering and there's rampant corruption and endless discrimination they need some more dollar and they come to us

Germany, I want some $$$ for you starting WW2 plz

Europe better pay up, especially considering the majority of their wealth came from slavery

I hope I get coins, my granddad is from the Carribbean.

In seriousness though, I don't think it's fair people of today should pay for what happened in the past.

But then we wouldn't have Michael or Janet

Yeah, 250 years ago... why isn't the USA being sued when they abolished slavery a century later than us?!

Make those colonist slavers pay

No? I see it different. We're all still benefitting or suffering for the choices they made back then. Anyway, Germany is still paying reperations to Israel.