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10-16-2017, 11:05 AM
A coalition of African-Nova Scotian groups is urging the province and Canadian government to make reparations to blacks for the enslavement of African people between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Lynn Jones, the chair of the Nova Scotia chapter of the international non-governmental network Global Afrikan Congress, said her organization is seeking to address the "crime against humanity that occurred to African people."
"Part of the reparations, too, is the formal apology because the Canadian government, generally, has not acknowledged what happened to us," she said. "I think that is very much the first step."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/blacks-slavery-transatlantic-africa-reparations-deportation-1.4328438
Lynn Jones, the chair of the Nova Scotia chapter of the international non-governmental network Global Afrikan Congress, said her organization is seeking to address the "crime against humanity that occurred to African people."
"Part of the reparations, too, is the formal apology because the Canadian government, generally, has not acknowledged what happened to us," she said. "I think that is very much the first step."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/blacks-slavery-transatlantic-africa-reparations-deportation-1.4328438