One hundred and fifty years or so after the Western abolition of slavery, we have seen a busy few months for those who enjoy declaring their opposition to it.
A group representing most of the world’s African and Caribbean nations recently called for “a formal apology for transatlantic slavery” from every country to benefit from it. This demand hardly stands alone. As I noted back in November 2025, the African Union also launched “a new push for slavery and colonial reparations,” demanding tens of billions of dollars to compensate for “transatlantic slavery and the slave trade.” The General Assembly of the United Nations, meanwhile — a body generally sympathetic to Third Worldist demands — voted in March 2026 to recognize the white-run Atlantic portion of the historical slave trade as the “gravest crime” in all of human history.
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