Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans
As well as making an official apology for John Gladstone’s ownership of Africans, the 21st-century Gladstones have agreed to payJohn Gladstone was the fifth-largest beneficiary of the £20m fund set aside by the British government to compensate planters when theEarly in his career, William spoke in parliament in defence of his father’s involvement in slavery and also helped calculate how much his father would be compensated.
About 13,000 Africans rose up in Demerara, a British colony that later became part of Guyana. Conditions for the enslaved were particularly brutal there. The plantations were the most profitable in the British empire, with an enslaved person in Demerara worth twice that of one in Jamaica.
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