The head of Britain’s Protestant Anglican Church traveled to Jamaica last week to both apologize for the transAtlantic slave trade.
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“We are deeply, deeply, deeply sorry. We sinned against your ancestors. I would give anything for it to be reversed, but it cannot, so what makes for a better future? When we come to worship God, when we come to serve Jesus Christ, we are all equal, even those who have sinned terribly. What we have done remains in the present, both for good and evil,” he told the gathering.
Welby told churchgoers celebrating 200 years of the Diocese in Jamaica and the neighboring Cayman Islands that the 100 million pounds sterling should go toward restoration, healing, and reconciliation among descendants of the slave trade. West African and Caribbean people should manage the fund, he said.
However, an independent study that had been set up by the church found that the money was insufficient when compared to the wealth that had flowed from slavery and “the moral sin and crime of African chattel enslavement.”
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