The petition Jamaica lodged at Buckingham Palace on Monday was never meant to be pressed into the King's hands. Reading it that way misses both the protocol and the point.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Sept. 8, 2026 |Calvin G Brown - Was it a breach of international law to seize African people and carry them by force to Jamaica?
Is the United Kingdom under a legal obligation to make reparation to the people of Jamaica for what was done to them there?
And was the forced transportation and enslavement of Africans as chattel ever lawful under English law in the first place?
