# Jamaica’s legal approach: Were forced transportation and African enslavement lawful under English law?

https://mins.news/en/video/48501

- France 24 English, 2026-09-07 14:07 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V38ksi4IxeM

> Jamaica’s Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister Olivia Grange says the country’s reparations initiative seeks to move debate over British slavery from political discretion toward legal accountability. Jamaica is asking whether the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans were ever lawful under English law.

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