David Lammy requests pardon for 1823 Abolitionists

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(THE Guardian) Shadow Overseas Secretary of the United Kingdom, David Lammy has written to the Boris Johnson Government asking it to pardon 70 abolitionists convicted for their role in the historic 1823 Demerara rebellion by enslaved people against British colonialists in the Caribbean. The shadow foreign secretary described the revolt, involving 10,000 enslaved people, as […]

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