In a personal statement, Dr Welby reaffirmed his commitment to addressing the legacies of slavery.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby disclosed that his ancestor owned enslaved people on a plantation in Jamaica and was compensated by the British government when slavery was abolished.The Church of England’s most senior bishop revealed he recently made the discovery that his late biological father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne, who was a private secretary to Winston Churchill, ‘had an ancestral connection to the enslavement of people in Jamaica and Tobago’.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, disclosed that his ancestor owned enslaved people on a plantation in Jamaica and was compensated by the British government when slavery was abolished The Church of England last year announced it was creating a £100 million fund to address the legacy of slavery
The Church of England last year announced it was creating a £100 million fund to address the legacy of slavery, with a separate report calling for that to be increased to £1 billion to deal with the ‘scale of the moral sin and crime’.
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