‘We Taught the World to END Slavery!’ | Oxford Historian Hits Out At UN
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Oxford historian Professor Lawrence Goldman criticises a United Nations panel’s call for Britain and other former slave-trading nations to erect public monuments honouring people of African descent as part of a framework for reparatory justice. Lawrence argues that the demand ignores Britain’s leading role in abolishing the transatlantic slave trade, emancipating enslaved people across the British Empire and deploying the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron to intercept slave ships. Have you got a story? Email tips@talk.tv Click here for more from Talk https://talk.tv If you need any help visit: https://talk.tv/helplines Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/talktv?sub_confirmation=1
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