Image source, University of Guyana Image caption, Charlie Gladstone read an apology to the individuals of Guyana on behalf of his household The descendants of previous Prime Minister William Gladstone are dealingwith calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an forefather’s function in slavery. The Gladstone household apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and vowed to fund researchstudy into slavery and other jobs at a event on Friday. But the household hasactually been implicated of stoppingworking to acknowledge the case for paying slavery reparations in Jamaica. The household informed the BBC: “At the minute we are exclusively focused on Guyana.” “There is a substantial quantity to do here [in Guyana],” the Gladstones stated. John Gladstone – the daddy of William Gladstone, one of the UK’s most revered prime ministers – was one of the biggest servant owners in the British West Indies. The University of London’s (UCL) Legacies of British Slavery database reveals John Gladstone owned or held homemortgages over 2,508 shackled Africans in Guyana and Jamaica in the 19th Century. He was paid more than £100,000 in payment after the British Parliament passed a law to eliminate the servant trade in 1833, getting £15,052 for 806 shackled individuals in Jamaica. Reading the household’s apology to Guyana, Charlie Gladstone, the great-great-grandson of William Gladstone, condemned slavery as “a criminaloffense versus mankind” and acknowledged “slavery’s continuing effect on the everyday lives of lotsof”. He stated the household supported a 10-point reparations strategy proposed by Caribbean countries. But there was no reference of John Gladstone’s servant ownership in Jamaica at the event in Guyana on Friday, nor in the household’s declaration revealing their objective to apologise and make contributions last week. John Gladstone owned “significant residentialorcommercialproperties” in Jamaica, stated Verene Shepherd, director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies. She stated the Gladstone household “must come to the scene of the
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