happened to george polloy was appalling. britain helped to end slavery. britain was not the great enslaver. of course those of us in the african and caribbean communities, who hold reparations marked every year, we would beg to differ and quite strongly. >> not only do you beg to differ e history does. i mean, britain during the slave trade between 1640 and 1807, it's estimated that britain transported 3.1 million africans to the caribbean, to north america, and to south america. so given this latest global discussion around reparations, what impact could this have on the reparations debate right here in this country? >> well, the reparations debate needs to be a global debate because the transatlantic slavery was just that. it was a global commerce, a global trade in human beings. that's how we got here, tiffany. it wasn't by accident.