The King of Holland apologized for the slave trade Holland's King Willem-Alexander has expressed regret for his nation's participati...

The King of Holland apologized for the slave trade

Holland's King Willem-Alexander has expressed regret for his nation's participation in the slave trade, claiming that it personally harmed him.

A lot of people agreed with him when he addressed the slaves from Suriname in South America, the Caribbean Islands, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao, but many others insisted that the Netherlands should make up for what it had done.

In a statement that was broadcast on television, the Emir claimed that at a period when the law permitted humans, slavery and the slave trade were blatant acts of injustice.

Some of the people in front of whom the monarch delivered this speech claimed to have pardoned him because he had begged for it.

The Netherlands has been embroiled in a contentious discussion regarding the slave trade it engaged in during the colonial era, which helped make it one of the richest nations in the world, ever since the emergence of Black Lives Matter in the United States.

According to a research published in June, the Dutch royal family profited from the slave trade to the tune of 545 million euros between 1675 and 1770.