Submitted on Saturday 20th June 2020
Rejected on Friday 17th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
1st of August, Emancipation day to be recognised as a national holiday.
National bank holiday in remembrance of emancipation day 1833 and the end of the of the apprenticeships that kept free labour legal 1838. It’s imperative to recognise historic events with a national holiday as the government recognised the historic debt/reparations which paid slave owners until 2015
By having Emancipation Day as a British holiday it will provide awareness and celebration to the historic events which freed slaves.
As Britons were at the forefront of the slave trade, it is only right to acknowledge the emancipation of slaves in our nation.
Small reparations have been made from the atrocity that was the slave trade, though many business, people and families have benefitted up until recent years. One day of the year will help repay those lost.
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