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If you’re a British taxpayer, you can at least rest assured that some of your money was going to compensate the victims of British slavery as recently as 2015.
Sorry, did I say compensate the victims? I meant compensate the slave holders.
Via @LewisHarrington
#britain #uk #england #slavery
Fact check: United Kingdom finished paying off debts to slave-owning families in 2015
The UK Treasury continued to compensate the descendants of slave owners for decades after the abolition of slavery in the empire.Matthew Brown, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)