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Actor’s Slave-Owning Ancestors Make Him Target Of Reparations Scheme

January 3rd, 2023
Categories: News

Link: https://thinkcivics.com/actors-slave-owning-ancestors-make-him-target-of-reparations-scheme/

Hollywood star Benedict Cumberbatch’s family could be forced to pay reparations to Barbados for running a slave plantation on the island in the 18th and 19th centuries. | Cumberbatch’s seventh great grandfather bought the Cleland plantation in St Andrew, Barbados, in 1728. The plantation then became home to 250 slaves until slavery was abolished more than 100 years later. Ironically, Cumberbatch played the role of a plantation owner in the Oscar-winning film “12 Years a Slave.”  When the plantation was forced to close, the Cumberbatch family were handed £6,000 in compensation for their loss of 'human property' - in today's money that amounts to around £3.6 million.

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