Category - slave trade apology

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21 Mar 2007

Senior bishop criticises evangelicals and other Christians over slave trade abolition

A senior Church of England bishop has criticised evangelicals who backed the campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade and highlighted how his predecessors justified the trade and opposed William Wilberforce's attempts to end it.
1 Mar 2007

March in chains to apologise for transatlantic slave trade begins

Campaigners bound in chains have set off on a 250-mile march to commemorate the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.