This article by SIR RONALD SANDERS appeared in Jamaica’s Observer.
In 1838, British slave owners in the English-speaking Caribbean received £11.6 (US$17.8) billion in today's value as compensation for the emancipation of their "property" — 655,780 human beings of African descent that they had been enslaved, brutalised and exploited. The freed slaves, by comparison, received nothing in recompense for their dehumanisation, cruel treatment, the abuse of their labour, and the plain injustice of their enslavement.
If for centuries the western world grew in wealth by depleting resources from the Caribbean and are directly responsible for the postcolonial disaster, what would be the most moral thing to do?
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