LONDON.-The actor’s family Benedict Cumberbatch She was accused of keeping slaves in Barbados.
According to AJ+, Barbados could ask the Cumberbatch family to pay redress for their role in the enslavement.
The Telegraph newspaper reported that a group of activists saw the family of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
David Commissiong, vice-president of the National Reparations Commission, told the Daily Telegraph he wanted descendants of slave-owning families to pay reparations.
Commissiong told The Guardian last month that families could take legal action if they don’t agree to the payment repair.
“It is now a matter before the Barbados government,” he said. “It will be treated at the highest level.”
Abraham Parry Cumberbatch is accused of having bought a farm on the island in 1728.
As indicated, 250 people enslaved They lived there until slavery was abolished, about 100 years later.
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London newspapers report that the British government paid thousands of pounds in compensation to the Cumberbatch family after the abolition.
At least 10 million people from Africa were enslaved by European countries between the 15th and 14th centuries.
They are forced to work in haciendas throughout America and the Caribbean.
The authorities in England compensated the slave owners with 20 million pounds, which is about 17 billion pounds today.
Benedict Cumberbatch said in 2017 that “his mother had urged him not to use his real name professionally for fear that it would become the subject of a lawsuit from descendants of slaves”.
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