{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/327878.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":327878,"parliament":{"period":"2019-2024","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2024-05-30T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Economic Reform for Black British Subjects","background":"Black British subjects should be: \r\nTax exempted \r\nReimbursed Tax \r\nCompensated","additional_details":"Britain abolished the slave trade but only after 200 years of benefiting from it.\r\n\r\nBritish slave owners were then compensated with 20 million pounds in 1833 (40% GDP), which in todays money equates to 17 Billion pounds.\r\n\r\nAs this was such a large sum of money and the government were unable to pay this, they raised bonds. British tax payers only finished paying off these bonds in 2015.\r\n\r\nThe compensation request is due to the government paying people who owned other people.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":21,"created_at":"2020-06-17T19:24:04.856Z","updated_at":"2020-07-13T15:25:15.765Z","rejected_at":"2020-07-13T15:25:10.835Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2020-06-17T20:01:44.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":"Reimburse tax payers for monies used to compensate slave owners: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325300 \r\n\r\nRefund taxes used to pay slavery abolition debt to British descendants of slaves: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325536 \r\n\r\nPay Slavery Reparations to all Caribbean & African Descendants: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325237 \r\n\r\nLegislate for the provision of reparations to communities affected by slavery: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325529 "},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}