The National Reparations Commission said the case is at an early stage and “much of this story is only now being understood.”
The Department of Barbados, which broke ties with the British monarchy and became a republic last year, began demanding restitution for slavery. The family of the famous actor Benedict Cumberbatch is under the gun, writes The Telegraph.
At one point, the star claimed his family’s ties to the slave trade. This story of ancestors, according to the artist, inspired him to act in the films Amazing Grace and 12 Years a Slave.
Now a local official on the island, David Comishng, who is involved in the national reparations commission, said that the department is in the early stages of trying to seek a refund from the Cumberbatch family.
It is known that Joshua Cumberbatch, Benedict’s seventh great-grandfather, bought the Cleland plantation in Barbados in 1728, and it was home to 250 slaves and was open for more than 100 years before the abolition of slavery.
It will be remembered that earlier the star of Sherlock Holmes supported the initiative of the British government House for Ukraine and said that the Ukrainian family had already left Britain to live in his mansion.
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