The South American leader is calling for the relatives of slave owners to compensate today's generations as the Gladstone family arrive in Guyana to apologise.
Guyana's president has called for those involved in the slave trade to be posthumously charged with crimes against humanity, ahead of a formal apology from the descendants of a British slave owner.
President Irfaan Ali has also said people whose ancestors profited from the transatlantic slave trade should pay reparations to today's generations.to formally apologise on behalf of Scottish 19th-century sugar and coffee plantation owner John Gladstone. He was the father of former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone and while he never set foot in the South American country or the neighbouring West Indian islands, he owned more than 2,500 slaves in Guyana and Jamaica.
Gladstone was in charge when the 1823 slave rebellion began on his plantation at Success Village on Guyana's east coast. Records show hundreds of slaves were killed. Their heads were then chopped off and placed on poles which lined the road to the capital, Georgetown, as a reminder to other slaves.More on Guyana
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