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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

Jamaican delegation defends legal route of petition to King Charles for slavery reparations

Olivia Grange stands in front of Buckingham Palace holding a document aloft. She is 80 years old with short curly hair worn in ringlets and is wearing a dark green dress with gold embroidery plus dangling gold earrings. She is smiling.
Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s culture minister, has led a delegation to the UK to petition King Charles. Photograph: Jess Hurd/PA

A palpable surge of emotion swept through Brixton’s New Park Road Baptist church as the packed congregation rose to sing Bob Marley’s Redemption Song.

The service on Sunday marked the anniversary of the 1781 Zong massacre, when more than 100 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard so the ship’s owners could claim insurance for “lost cargo”.

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