Monday, March 26, 2007

Sins of our fathers

If the Church of England is considering distributing the £9,000 compensation it received when slavery was abolished to descendants of slaves, should it also ask for a refund from the African chiefs who sold them their slaves!?!
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not to mention counter-claiming to set off the gains of the descendants of the freed slaves who have lived longer and in greater health and prosperity in America and the West Indies than they could ever have hoped for in West Africa (had they lived at all, given infant mortality rates there).

I suspect that might prove a nice little earner to help the CoE win back all the losses it made in the '90s property crash. Come on Archbish', how about some muscular Christianity?

But seriously, have none of these people ever heard of a limitation period on a civil claim? This is a political campaign couched in the language of spurious legality.

9:34 am
Snafu said...

Tom, I was wondering if I could put in a claim for all the tithes my ancestors would have paid the church over the years!

6:11 pm
Anonymous said...

... and what about those Romans eh?

How are we going to get our compensation from them?

Phil A

9:47 am
Snafu said...

Phil A, next time you go out for an Italian, have it on the house!

6:14 pm

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