Submitted by Ifeoma Owele Nwanyi Nwaka on Sunday 5th January 2025
Published on Wednesday 26th February 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 26th August 2025
Current Signatures: 16
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
abolition ~ Access ~ Africa ~ British ~ british government ~ Central ~ Colonial ~ Erasure ~ fund ~ history ~ Identity ~ investment ~ Lost ~ Millions ~ Restore ~ slave trade ~ Slavery ~ testing ~ The British ~ Trade
Fund free DNA ancestry tests for Transatlantic Slave Trade Descendants
The British government played a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Key aspects of its involvement:
1. Regulation of the Slave Trade
2. Economic Investment
3. Colonial Exploitation
4. Legal and Military Support
5. Resistance to Abolition
We think that offering free access to tests could restore cultural and ancestral identity that was forcibly erased during the centuries-long period of slavery. We think this erasure has left millions of descendants disconnected from their lineage, cultural heritage, and geographic origins in Africa.
Our key reasons for this policy include:
Reclaiming Lost History
Addressing Intergenerational Trauma
Cultural Empowerment
Correcting Historical Inequities
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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