Charleston lawmakers to vote on resolution apologizing for city's slavery past

Source: ABC News


By M.L. NESTEL
Jun 19, 2018, 4:29 PM ET

One southern city wants to apologize for its past.

City officials in Charleston, South Carolina, will vote on a resolution Tuesday that expresses regret for the centuries of human slavery that was administered and regulated by its former lawmakers.

"This is the modern city council which feels the need to make an apology for the institution of slavery in the city of Charleston," Charleston councilman William Dudley Gregorie, who helped author and shepherd the resolution, told ABC News.

The three-page resolution will be voted on by the council's 12 members. It needs a majority of seven votes to pass.

The language in the resolution explicitly takes responsibility for the "dehumanizing atrocities" that was condoned for centuries.


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