Article 6E7YG Keep Your Words And Run Us That Bag: Family Of Former British Prime Minister Apologizes To Guyana For Slavery

Keep Your Words And Run Us That Bag: Family Of Former British Prime Minister Apologizes To Guyana For Slavery

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Candace McDuffie
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On Friday (August 25), the family of a 19th-century Scottish slaveowner in Guyana apologized on behalf of their ancestor. But the apology didn't just come from any old slaveholder's loin fruit - it came from the mouth of a descendent of a former British head-of-state.

Charles Gladstone is the great-great grandson of...

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