Archbishop Mullally Reaffirms £100 Million Slavery Reparations Fund During Ghana Visit
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 30
Archbishop Mullally Reaffirms £100 Million Slavery Reparations Fund During Ghana Visit
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 30
Summary
Cape Coast Castle framed Dame Sarah Mullally’s renewed backing for the Church of England’s £100 million reparative justice fund, as she said the institution clearly played a part in the transatlantic slave trade.
Mullally said touring the Ghanaian slave fort’s dungeons and “door of no return” underscored the church’s complicity, calling the chapel above them a stark symbol of that involvement.
The fund, approved three years ago after an audit of the church’s historic endowment, is meant to finance investment, research and engagement in communities harmed by the enslavement of African people.
Opposition inside and around the church has challenged the fund’s historical basis, legality and ideology, but Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa praised Mullally’s stance as a signal to critics.