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Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the transatlantic slave trade, ... 1858 - Portugal abolishes slavery in its colonies, ...

LONDON — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies.

Britain's leaders will likely face uncomfortable questions about reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade at a summit of nations it once colonized, after Caribbean leaders said they would t.

Slavery was abolished in Suriname and the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean on July 1, 1863, but most of the enslaved laborers were forced to continue working on plantations for another decade.

The Netherlands formally abolished slavery in its colonies in 1863, but has only recently begun to actively acknowledge its participation in the practice. By Claire Moses King Willem-Alexander of ...

Calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the thorniest issue at the summit and specifically reparatory justice.

Slavery was officially banned in the colonies in 1863, but it didn’t truly end until 1873, because “many enslaved people were forced to work on plantations for a decade longer to limit ...