Apr 19 2026POLITICS
A Grandfather’s Apology and France’s Unfinished Debt
An 86-year-old French man recently made history by publicly apologizing for his family’s involvement in transatlantic slavery. His ancestors, shipowners in Nantes—a city once central to France’s slave trade—shipped thousands of enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and owned plantations. Now, he’s urgi
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