Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has revealed that his ancestor owned enslaved people on a plantation in Jamaica and was compensated by the British government when slavery was abolished. Welby disclosed his ancestral links in a personal statement that reiterated his commitment to addressing the enduring and damaging legacies of transatlantic slavery. The archbishop, who is the leader of the global Anglican church, said he discovered recently that his late biological father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne, a private secretary to Winston Churchill, “had an ancestral connection to the enslavement of people in Jamaica and Tobago”. In 2016, Welby learned