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Jamaican academic nt bowled over by apology from Archbishop of Canterbury

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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jul 22, CMC – The consultant director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies (The UWI), and Vice-Chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, Professor Verene Shepherd, says while she accepts Sunday’s apology for slavery from  the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, it did not go far enough in apologising for the Anglican Church’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.

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