Submitted on Tuesday 30th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 7th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Pay Slavery Reparations to a Caribbean & African trust fund
In 2015, Britain’s tax payers finally paid off what is equivalent of billions of pounds to former slave owners to compensate them for losing their slaves in 1833; ignoring the impact on the African and Caribbean descendants.
£100 in 1833 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £11,981.51 in 2020, a difference of £11,881.51 over 190 years. African and Caribbean desendents have suffered severely. The Government should compensate the descendants of the injustice the British Empire has caused. We want the equivalent to what the slave owners were paid in to a Africa and Caribbean trust fund for mothers, children, youth with business plans, and improvements plans. This will be set up to better African and Caribbean communities in Britain.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Pay Slavery Reparations to all Caribbean & African Descendants: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325237
Legislate for the provision of reparations to communities affected by slavery: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325529
Refund taxes used to pay slavery abolition debt to British descendants of slaves: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325536
We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality
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