Following the Westminster Abbey protests Pearl Duncan, who found the records of her slave ancestors in the archives of the Church of England, looks at moving beyond apology

A man who disrupted a service marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade has gained support from Christians of African descent.

A protester has interrupted a commemorative service at Westminster Abbey marking the bicentenary of the act to abolish the slave trade.

The Church of England should consider paying reparations for its role in the slave trade, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.

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.

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

A slave market whipping post once stood where the high altar now rises inside Zanzibar's 127-year-old Christ Church Cathedral. Here the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, began the Eucharist on 18 February 2007 with prayers asking "forgiveness for the past, mercy for the present, and humility for the future" - writes Bob Williams for Episcopal News Service USA.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that we need to feel the same hunger for justice that ended the slave trade if the world is to be changed for the better.