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Date: 15 January 2007 12:36:45
Ekklesia has details of a march of repentence which is to happen in a couple of months time, a symbolic act designed by the Church of England to atone for the complicity of their ancestors in the slave trade.
Whilst I think the power of symbolism involved is positive, my concern is the way that it continues to put slavery, in peoples mind, into the cateogory of the past. As websites such as Protest 4 point out it is still a contempory problem, but one which most of us choose to ignore.