The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has discdisthink abouted his ancestor owned enslaved people in Jamaica.
Mr Welby, 68, shelp in a personal statement that his wonderful wonderful wonderful majesticoverweighther Sir James Fergusson owned slaves at the Rozelle Plantation in St Thomas, Jamaica, and getd compensation from the British rulement when servitude was abolished.
Sir James Fergusson was the ancestor of the tardy Sir Anthony Montague Browne – Sir Winston Churchill’s last personal secretary.
In 2016, Mr Welby discovered in a “finish surpelevate” that Sir Anthony was his biorational overweighther – not Gavin Welby, the man who liftd him.
The archbishop, who had no relationship with Sir Anthony, shelp he “recently discovered” his join to the “evil trade” of servitude. Mr Welby did not get any money from his biorational overweighther while he was ainhabit, or from his estate since his death.
In a statement, Mr Welby shelp: “While I uncontently only discovered my relationship to Sir Anthony in 2016, three years after his death, I have had the plrelieve of encountering my half-sister and her son.
He grasped: “My recent trip to Jamaica has helped me to contest the legacies of enslavement in the Caribbean and the responsibility owed to those who still suffer from the effects of this evil trade.
“I thank those who have given their time to such tireless research in this field, many of whom are dropants of enslaved people.”
The Church of England proclaimd in January 2023 that it was laboring to graspress historic joins to servitude, with a funding programme for spendment, research and take partment to “graspress past wrongs”.
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The initial £100m spendment fund was branded too minuscule and catalogless in a tell earlier this year, with an autonomous oversight group saying Church Coshiftrlookioners had “hugd a aim of £1bn for a expansiveer healing, repair and fairice initiative with the fund at its centre”.
Mr Welby, who is the directer of the global Anglican church, shelp in today’s statement: “I reiterate the Church Coshiftrlookioners’ promisement to a thoraw and exact research programme, in the understandledge that archives have far more to alert us about what has come before us – standardly in a very personal way.
“I give thanks to God for this journey towards healing, fairice and repair, as we apshow the path that Jesus Christ calls us to walk.”