ACCESS TO SLAVERY RECORDS - SIGN THE PETITION
Following a recent Editor's comment on Colourful Network titled "Why
African descendants should have free access to slavery records" (
http://www.blackbritain.co.uk/comment/, 30/04/2007 ), a petition was
set up to demand access records pertaining to enslaved ancestors as
well as slave owners.
A UK company is currently placing online colonial records of 3.000.000
Africans, relating to their enslavement. This is a corporate attempt to
cash in on the increased interest during the bicentenary year.
African people and descendants of slaves should not have to pay for
such a service. This should be a free to view document, with all
records being made public so the history can be known by all.
Please sign this petition to get all government records made available
free of charge to everyone. Pass it on to others.
Go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/freeaccess/ to sign the Petition.
ONLY: 1,677 have signed the petition so far
Deadline to sign is 04 May 2008
Many thanks
Angela Allison
Coventry, UK
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