Caribbean: British Crown confronted with its colonial past

King Charles III’s tour of the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda has revived calls for the British monarchy to acknowledge its role in the transatlantic slave trade. Millions of Africans were deported to the Caribbean and North America and forced to work, helping enrich the British Empire. Countries and campaigners are calling for official apologies and financial reparations. The palace says the king is expected to repeat his description of slavery as an “atrocity that forever stains our history,” but no formal apology has been announced.