King Charles describes slave trade as a ‘shameful chapter’

SOURCE: Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC)

Britain’s King Charles Tues­day de­scribed the At­lantic slave trade as a “shame­ful chap­ter” in his­to­ry, even as he ac­knowl­edged that “none of us, of course, would be here to­day were it not for our his­to­ry, which has shaped us in myr­i­ad ways.

“His­to­ry is not ours to choose or to change. It is be­queathed to us in com­plex syn­the­sis by fore­bears we can nev­er know. Our in­her­i­tance in­cludes both their achieve­ments and their fail­ures, the good they did as well as the wrongs,” the head of the British monarch told the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the 28th Com­mon­wealth heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM), a group­ing of 56 for­mer colonies of the British em­pire.