Slavery and Its Legacy: Facing Our Unhealed Past, mass slavery apology

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Apologies for Slavery

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U.S. government apologies for slavery:
House of Representatives

Senate
Alabama

Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
New Jersey
North Carolina
Virginia
Annapolis MD

Alameda County CA

Other countries:

In 2006 Tony Blair, prime minister, expressed “deep sorrow” for the UK’s role in the slave trade.

Businesses and universities
- Brown University
- Aetna, mid-2000, prompted by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, apologized for insurance policies written on slaves 140 years earlier.
In 2002, New York Life, the insurer, donated documents about the insurance it sold to slave owners in the 1840s to a New York library. It also backed educational efforts.
- In 2005 JPMorgan, the investment bank, apologized that two of its predecessors in Louisiana – Citizens Bank and Canal Bank – had mortgaged slaves. The bank made its research public and set up a $5m scholarship fund for African- American pupils.
- Lehman Brothers apologized in 2005 for its predecessors’ links to slavery, while Bank of America said it regretted any actions its predecessors might have taken to support or tolerate slavery.
- Wachovia Bank, since acquired by Wells Fargo, also apologized for its predecessors having owned and profited from slaves. It set up a program offering $1bn in loans for black car dealerships.
- In October 2001 students at Yale University pointed out its past links with slavery. The university noted it had already founded the Gilder-Lehrman center for the study of slavery.
- Brown University has set up a commission to look into links with slavery and how it should make amends.

- Emory University, January 2011

Faith groups
Episcopal Church
Church of England

Episcopal Church in North Carolina

Southern Baptist Convention

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Articles by Mass Slavery Apology

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The Real Reason We Became White, by George

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