The Church of England has acknowledged its slave trade role – now the Royal Family must follow ✒️ DrBrookeNewman for ipaperviews
Both the Church of England and the Royal Family purchased shares in the South Sea Company, which not only held the right to sell slaves to Spanish America but was also obligated by the terms of theto deliver 4,800 enslaved Africans to the Spanish plantations annually for a period of 30 years.
Between 1713 and 1739, the company delivered approximately 34,000 enslaved Africans to Jamaica and Spanish American ports, including Veracruz, Havana, Cartagena, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Portobello, Panama, and Santiago de Cuba. In response to this “shameful” revelation that the Church’s investment portfolio benefited from these atrocities, they have committed to spending £100m over the next nine years on a program of investment, research, and engagement. It intends to fund additional research to support dioceses, cathedrals and parishes investigate their historic links with slavery and to offer grants to assist descendant communities adversely impacted by slavery and its devastating legacies.
“It is now time to take action to address our shameful past,” concluded Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. But the Church of England was far from the only institution to invest in and profit from slave trading. Britain’s single most important institution, one tightly interwoven with national identity, has kept quiet about its involvement in the expansive and violent system of human bondage that arose in the Americas:This silence is purposeful and effective.
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