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britain ruled jamaica as a forced labor colony, an estimated 600,000 enslaved people were kidnapped from africa to sugar cane and banana plantations where they were worked to death or killed by disease while their enslavers and the british crown grew rich off their labor. jamaican officials are prepared to demand reparations from the queen, a fight that will not be easy to win. joining me is historian dr. hassan kwame jeffries, and henry bonsu, journalist and freelance broadcaster based in london. i'm very happy to have you with me. henry, i want to start with you. i think a lot of folks in america assume that black americans are the only enslaved people. there are social media movements that are very -- the diaspora has been largely impacted by europe quite frankly. given the atrocities that the uk

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