The move comes as Jamaica continues to press Britain over the legacy of slavery, including compensation paid to slave owners and the return of colonial-era artefacts

The petition will ask Charles, as Jamaica's head of state, to refer three questions about transatlantic chattel slavery to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Slavery’s legacy continues ‘to deprive our country and our people’, says minister, as group prepares to appeal to Jamaica’s head of state