The Church of England (CofE) and the Archbishop of Canterbury have announced plans to pay £100 million in a reparations-style fund to support “communities affected by historic slavery.”
On Tuesday, the Church Commissioners for England published a report into historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery, and announced a new funding commitment of £100 million.
It follows an interim announcement in June 2022, which reported for the first time that it had found with “great dismay” that the Church Commissioners’ endowment had historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery.
The endowment traces its origins partly to Queen Anne’s Bounty, a fund established in 1704.
“This report lays bare the links of the Church Commissioners’ predecessor fund with transatlantic chattel slavery. I am deeply sorry for these links,” wrote Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Twitter….