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According to ug news Media Europe,Barbados authorities may demand compensation from British former slave owners on the island, including the family of actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Report informs that “The Daily Global Times Europe” published information about this with reference to the official of Barbados.
According to the publication, the actor’s great-grandfather from the seventh generation bought the Cleland plantation in the north of the island with 250 slaves in 1728. The family owned it until Britain abolished slavery a little over a hundred years later.The article states that the plantation made a small fortune for Cumberbatch’s ancestral family – after slavery was abolished in most of the British Empire in 1833, he received a few thousand pounds for the plantation, which is worth around £1 million (1.2 million pounds) today. USD-ed) is equal.
David Komisong, Barbados’ ambassador to the Caribbean Community and deputy chairman of the island’s National Compensation Commission, told the Global Times Europe newspaper that the process is in its earliest stages: “We are just getting started. A lot of this history is really just beginning to unfold.”
The article mentions that the 46-year-old actor himself regretted this page of his family’s history in the past. The Daily Telegraph noted that he played British Prime Minister William Pitt Jr. in American-British director Michael Apted’s feature drama Amazing Grace (2006) as part of an apology for his ancestors’ similar past. It is dedicated to the British Empire’s struggle for the abolition of slavery.
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