UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

Experts estimate ‘accounting of the harm that was done’ by 200 years of chattel slavery would be US$2tn in damages

Britain stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, according to new research by a team of international experts.

Their report concludes that Barbados’s population of African descent have suffered damages estimated at up to US$2tn (£1.5tn) from 200 years of chattel slavery.