Marvel's Benedict Cumberbatch Linked To Slave-Owning Past  

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Barbados is looking for reparations from descendants of slave owners.  

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Actor Benedict Cumberbatch's family is among the potential targets.  

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Cumberbatch's ancestors owned a sugar plantation with 250 enslaved people.  

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The family became one of the richest in Britain due to slave labor.  

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Barbados was a key part of the British Empire's slave economy.  

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Slaves on the island faced brutal conditions and high mortality rates.  

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Cumberbatch has starred in films about the slave trade but is ambivalent about reparations for his family.  

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British taxpayers paid off debt for compensating slave owners in 2015, but Caribbean nations are still seeking reparations.  

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Barbados commission studied reparations and sought them from other countries and institutions involved in the slave trade.  

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