Claims extracted
16
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
68/100
BBC News's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
103
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
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King Charles has described the transatlantic slave trade as a "shameful chapter of history" that filled him with "profound sorrow" as he opened a summit of Commonwealth leaders in the Caribbean.
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he → publish → Caribbean
He said the trade in enslaved persons "still casts a shadow" over the association of nations.
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trade → say → nations
There has been calls from some for the UK to make a formal apology for its historic role in the trave trade ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Antigua and Barbuda, but there was not one in the King's address.
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UK → make → address
Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is also at the summit, has previously said he is open to Britain issuing a formal apology but that financial reparations were "not the right answer".
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reparations → say → apology
While there was no direct apology, he did offer some contrition - and there was also an acknowledgement that he had personally learnt more about the legacy of the slave trade.
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he → be → trade
He said: "The transatlantic trade in enslaved persons still casts a shadow over these islands and other members of our Commonwealth.
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trade → say → Commonwealth
"As I have said before, that shameful chapter of history is one that fills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow."
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that → say → sorrow
He told the summit: "The more I have furthered my own understanding of the issues, through listening, learning and looking, the more committed I have become to finding ways for us to work in modern partnership to address the wrongs of the past with action for the future."
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us → tell → future
King Charles continued: "History is not ours to choose or to change.
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History → continue → ?
It is bequeathed to us in complex synthesis by forebears we can never know.
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we → bequeath → forebears
Our inheritance includes both their achievements and their failures – the good they did as well as the wrongs."
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they → include → achievements
The King's address also referenced the "brutal conflicts" the world is facing, the "catastrophic reality" of climate and rapid technological development.
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world → reference → climate
The Chogm meeting gathers leaders from 56 states every two years in a different part of the Commonwealth, a voluntary grouping made up primarily of former territories of the British Empire.
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meeting → gather → Empire
The King and Queen are on a tour of the Caribbean which has reignited difficult debates over the UK's colonial legacy in the region.
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which → reignite → region
On his first stop in the Bahamas, the King delivered a speech in which he spoke of the "suffering of the past".
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he → deliver → past
In Guyana, he visited the site of a Slave Rebellion, where hundreds of enslaved people were killed.
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hundreds → visit → people
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