Queen Anne’s Bounty was NOT invested in slave trading

Apr 17, 2024 by

A letter in the Church Times last week notes that the investment held by Queen Anne’s Bounty was NOT in the slave trading of the South Sea Company but in government debt, rather like today’s gilt stocks, held by the Company....

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Time to tackle modern slavery rather than reparations for the past

Apr 11, 2024 by

Letter to the Church of England Newspaper April 12 2024 I was astonished to read the article by Justin Welby (28 March 2024) inferring that the Church Commissioners“were an impact investor with a responsibility to support & promote...

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Modern slavery on the rise

Apr 6, 2024 by

From: Evangelical Focus. Today, modern slavery produces 37% more economic benefits than ten years ago and affects more people than ten years ago. These are the main conclusions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the second...

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William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints

Mar 25, 2024 by

by Beatrice Scudeler, Artillery Row: The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten. On 25 March 1807, Parliament passed an act to abolish the British slave trade. The Society for...

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Is there a biblical case for making reparations for slavery?

Mar 21, 2024 by

by Colin Hart, Christian Today: The issue of whether reparations should be made for British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade has come to the fore again as a result of the recent report from the oversight group set up by the...

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Lord Sewell: Church slavery fund is just for show

Mar 17, 2024 by

By Alice Thomson, James Beal, The Times: The Church of England’s £1 billion ­slavery reparation fund is “almost like bribery”, the government’s former race tsar said, as he said that ­Britain was much less racist than 40 years ago. Lord...

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