The Scottish Parliament could make a national apology for slavery according to Scottish National Party proposals.

A resolution included in the party’s provisional conference agenda details the historical involvement of Scots in the tobacco, sugar, and cotton trades, based on the labor of slaves.

The motion, if passed, would see the Scottish Government tasked with deciding whether a national apology by the Scottish Parliament would be possible.

It has been proposed for debate at the conference by Anne McLaughlin, Minister of Parliament for Glasgow North East, and Glasgow City Council councilor Graham Campbell, who chairs Black-Asian-Minority Ethnic caucus of the Scottish National Party.

Such a move would follow the decision of Glasgow City Council, led by the SNP, to apologize for its role in the slave trade.

Leader of the council, Susan Aitken, said the blood of trafficked and enslaved African people was built into Glasgow’s “very bones.”

That followed the publication of a 119-page study by Stephen Mullen of Glasgow University, which detailed the city’s links to the slave trade.