Just under a month ago, a landmark vote was passed. The United Nations voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and called for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs”. This was the culmination of a long journey and decades of work. But it is by no means the end.
I spoke to Ebony Riddell Bamber, director of the Scott Trust’s Legacies of Enslavement programme, about what the vote means, and the Guardian’s role in the global effort.
