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Oct 2, 2026
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Incoming Commonwealth Secretary General Shirley Botchway recently highlighted that member states expect formal discussions surrounding reparations and economic restitution to feature on the diplomatic agenda.
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Regional governments, including Jamaica, have backed legal petitions calling on the British Crown to confront its deep institutional and financial ties to transatlantic slavery, particularly the historical investments made by previous monarchs and organizations like the Royal African Company.
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By acknowledging past atrocities while stopping short of formal state apologies, King Charles seeks to navigate an increasingly complex diplomatic landscape as several Caribbean Commonwealth realms evaluate constitutional pathways toward establishing independent republics.
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The slave traders found it very easy to seize Negroes in Africa and make great profits by selling them in southern ports.
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The English Royal African Company sent to America annually between 1713 and 1743 from 5,000 to 10,000 slaves.
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After a time when the Negroes were so numerous that whole sections were overrun, the southern colonies tried ineffectually to curb the trade.
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Virginia in 1710 placed a duty of £5 on each slave, but the royal governor vetoed the bill.
Russell MyersHOST
I mean, this goes way back to the 15th century and to Elizabeth I.
Russell MyersHOST
There was the monarchy's involvement with the Royal African Company.
Russell MyersHOST
There were slaves branded from the companies that the monarchy had stakes in.
Russell MyersHOST
I mean, it is such a long and tortured and such deeply... upsetting history.
Charlie TaylorHOST
There are owners and co-owners of slaving voyages from London to various locations in the Caribbean.
Charlie TaylorHOST
There are investors in the Royal African Company, an English trading company that trafficked more Africans to the Americas than any other.
Charlie TaylorHOST
There are ordinary people, soap boilers and cheesemongers, surgeons and diplomats, all with various interests, shares, ownerships and investments in the trading of Africans.
Charlie TaylorHOST
The register is 636 pages long.
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The slave traders found it very easy to seize Negroes in Africa and make great profits by selling them in southern ports.
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The English Royal African Company sent to America annually between 1713 and 1743 from five thousand to ten thousand slaves.
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After a time when the Negroes were so numerous that whole sections were overrun, the southern colonies tried ineffectually to curb the trade.
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Virginia in 1710 placed a duty of five pounds on each slave, but the royal governor vetoed the bill.
William PettigrewGUEST
Yeah.
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And even its precursor, the Royal African Company, combined with its two earlier companies, transported somewhere in the region of 170 to 180 enslaved African people.
William PettigrewGUEST
And just to give you two bits of context on that, that makes it the largest single contributor to the transatlantic slave trade of any nation.
William PettigrewGUEST
And that's more than 50 percent of the enslaved African people who were at any point transported to what is now the United States.
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William PettigrewGUEST
But there's also a constitutional aspect to that disagreement.
William PettigrewGUEST
And those disagreements don't go away once the monarchy is restored.
William PettigrewGUEST
One of the leaders, in my view, the most important English slave trader of the 17th century, is the king's brother, James, Duke of York, who was the person who ran that organization I was talking about earlier, the Royal African Company.
William PettigrewGUEST
Now, people wanted to block him from the succession to the throne because he was a Roman Catholic.
Alan LesterGUEST
It meant that a lot of the hidden parts of empire came to light because the activists who toppled Edward Colston's statue into Bristol Harbour were choosing a symbol that really crystallized these continuities between past and present.
Alan LesterGUEST
The fact that Colston was a slave trader who trafficked 30,000 people, um, when he was deputy director of the African, Royal African Company, that he'd been at least partly responsible for 19,000 deaths in the holds of those trafficking ships, and yet he was still venerated, still on a statue in Bristol when I think to my mind, quite obviously, had he been any other, you know, white figure who had killed white people, 19,000 white people, they would have taken that statue down a long time ago.
Alan LesterGUEST
So it brought to light these ongoing racial disparities.
Alan LesterGUEST
They highlighted the racial disparities in education, in healthcare, in employment, um, in, uh, uh, the criminal justice system.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
So he...
Adesoji IginlaHOST
Also pointed out that there were the king and the queens of the day, William III and Mary II, who held shares in the Royal African Company.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
Sister knows all about that.
Adesoji IginlaHOST
It is clear that Bennett said the wealth generated from the slave trade formed part of the bank's initial capital.
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Yale is named after Eluhu Yale.
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who made his fortune with the East India Company.
Aya Fubara EneliPANELIST
Think about the Royal African Company in Africa, but this was the East India Company, which traded in enslaved people.
Aya Fubara EneliPANELIST
Yale also has a college that honors John Calhoun, who was slavery's leading defender.
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Finding it relatively easy to secure negroes in Africa, they crowded the southern ports with their vessels.
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The English Royal African Company sent to America annually between 1713 and 1743 from five to ten thousand slaves.
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The ship owners of New England were not far behind their English brethren in pushing this extraordinary traffic.
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As the proportion of the Negroes to the free white population steadily rose, and as whole sections were overrun with slaves and slave traders, the southern colonies grew alarmed.
Johnny VaughanHOST
Because this is before...
Johnny VaughanHOST
I'm trying to think if this is before the foundation of the Royal Africa Company, which had the monopoly...
Gavin WoodsHOST
Oh, did it? On slaves.
Gavin WoodsHOST
Oh, is that right? Because there's not really any reference to what happens to the slaves.
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