Recently, I came across interesting news that ingdom for its historical involvement in slavery, which heavily exploited people from their region.The Caribbean region is not alone in this call. In recent years, nations across the Global South have increasingly of the lasting impacts of slavery — a system that fueled the economic and political foundations of Western powers like Britain, France, Portugal, and even the United States for centuries.From the 15th to the 19th centuries, over taken from Africa and placed into a brutal global system that relied on cruelty and oppression to exploit their labor without compensation.On a side note, as I read through this, I came across something truly shocking and appalling: When slavery was officially abolished in the British Empire in 1834, the British government compensated former slave owners with £20 million (equivalent to £300 million today) for their “loss of property” — while offering nothing to the millions who had been enslavedThis absolutely disregarded their lives and suffering entirely. Why were those responsible for…