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Reference:
2007/2484
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Question by:
Bob Blackman
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Meeting date:
17 October 2007
Following your apology in March over London's involvement in the slave trade, will the Mayor be seeking a formal apology from the North African states for the capture and enslavement of up to 1.25m Europeans between the 16th and 19th centuries, including many English and London citizens? Further, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, will the Mayor be seeking to establish a fund to provide financial assistance to organisations like Christian Solidarity International, who actively continue William Wilberforce's work (and the work of other abolitionists) by freeing slaves from modern slave traders and slave...