Slaves will be paid

Speaking on BBC radio, he said that it is not yet clear who and how to pay, but the church is beginning to “work through” this issue. The Church of England, which used slave labor on plantations, apologized last year for its role in human trafficking. Sunday marked 200 years since the UK passed legislation abolishing the slave trade. The slaves owned by the Church were finally freed in 1833, and the Church received compensation from the government for the "loss of manpower" in the amount of 9 thousand pounds.