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- Pierre Guillon de Prince’s apology is believed to be France’s first formal apology for a family’s role in transatlantic slavery.
- His Nantes-based ancestors were shipowners who transported about 4,500 enslaved Africans and owned plantations in the Caribbean.
- He apologised at a Nantes gathering before the inauguration of an 18-metre replica ship mast, alongside Dieudonné Boutrin, a descendant of enslaved people from Martinique.
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Faced with the rise of racism in our society, I felt a responsibility not to let this past be erased.— Pierre Guillon de Prince; spoken at a gathering in Nantes ahead of the inauguration of an 18-metre replica ship mast addressing his family’s role in transatlantic slavery.
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