A delegation from Jamaica visited Buckingham Palace on Monday to lodge a petition seeking acknowledgment that Britain owes compensation for its historic role in the transatlantic slave trade.

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