Should slaveowners' descendants pay? Malik Al Nasir found an unusual way to continue his important research into his Guyanese ancestry and the history of enslaved people from the Sandbach Tinne dynasty.
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Family fortunes: Records unearthed by Cambridge PhD student Malik Al Nasir expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties. Glossary
Enslaved - Forced into slavery.
Compensation - Money paid in exchange for something that is damaged or lost, or in recognition of suffering.
Guyana - A country on the northern coast of South America, that identifies with the Caribbean and was once part of the historic British West Indies.
GDP - Short for Gross Domestic Product, the measure of all the goods and services produced inside a country.
Inhumane - Cruel, or without compassion.
Forebears - Ancestors.
Reparations - Providing payment to make amends for a wrongdoing.
Legacy - Something that comes from events in the past.