Antigua and Barbuda Seeks Reparation From All Souls College
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Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, has written to the Master of All Souls College at Oxford University, seeking reparations for what now amounts to tens of millions of pounds sterling, amassed from the hard labour of enslaved people on Antigua and Barbuda.
The Prime Minister’s letter, which was dispatched yesterday morning, had a swift response from Sir John Vickers, the Master of All Souls.
In his letter to the Head of the Oxford College, Prime Minister Browne stated that a bequest to All Souls College in 1710 from Christopher Codrington III, which stocked and built the College’s now-famous Library, was generated principally from the labour of enslaved people on ‘granted’ lands in Antigua and Barbuda.
Antigua and Barbuda seeking reparation from British university
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