86-year-old man has become the first person in France to formally apologize for his family’s links to slavery

An 86-year-old man has become the first person in France to formally apologize for his family’s links to slavery. Pierre Guillon de Prince’s ancestors were based in Nantes, France’s largest port for transatlantic slavery, and were shipowners who transported ​around 4,500 enslaved Africans while owning plantations in the Caribbean, according to Reuters. Guillon de Prince […] The post 86-year-old man has become the first person in France to formally apologize for his family’s links to slavery first appeared on The Zambian Observer .

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