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Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations

In a speech to mark Unesco’s campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created by 400 years of the transatlantic chattel trade persist to this day. “We can draw a…

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Demerara Rebellion failed, but it was a step towards ending slavery in the British empire

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

Charlie Gladstone on why the only way he can live with his family’s dark past is to turn it into something positive

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

Genuine victims of modern slavery not getting the support they need, charities warn

A 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé is the earliest known example of plantation slavery.