The West India Committee is not doing a good job of accounting for its own history. This highly inaccurate description of the pro-slavery organisation was published on its website until challenged this week.
After being challenged by historians, the claim to have worked to abolish slavery has been quietly replaced by a new item noting it was "a significant and influential organisation in the promotion of slavery and the slave trade"
There does not seem to be any public account of the organisation's engagement with its own past. (This contrasts unfavourably with, for example, the Commonwealth War Graves process which has led to today's apology). + surprising for this to take until 2021 https://twitter.com/PeterMandler1/status/1385200093889011713?s=19
Tone of this letter from the Chief Executive appears to cast those for whom its pro-slavery history "inevitably attracts as negative reaction" as a trouble-making fringe. ht @Hargraver
https://westindiacommittee.org/open_letter_from_the_chief_executive/
"Coordinated fundraising to end slave ownership and slave labour" is an impressive euphemism for campaigned (successfully) to ensure slave-owners were compensated for their human property
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