The slave traders

At a ‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to make a formal apology and pay reparations to the descendants of the enslaved millions (or at least to the countries that the victims had come from).

This meeting followed up on the UN General Assembly’s March resolution declaring transatlantic slavery “the gravest crime against humanity” and urging...