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Jamaica is demanding the United Kingdom pay billions of £s, in slavery reparations. Slavery which it established in North America including the colonies of what is now the United States.
Jamaica is demanding the United Kingdom pay billions of £s, in slavery reparations. Slavery which it established in North America including the colonies of what is now the United States.
Jamaica is demanding the United Kingdom pay billions of £s, in slavery reparations. Slavery which it established in North America including the colonies of what is now the United States.
As I recall Britain paid out billions in reparations to the slave owners when slavery was abolished. So why not pay the folks who were actually enslaved?
The true scale of Britain's involvement in the slave trade has been laid bare in documents revealing how the country's wealthiest families received the modern equivalent of billions of pounds in compensation after slavery was abolished.
The previously unseen records show exactly who received what in payouts from the Government when slave ownership was abolished by Britain – much to the potential embarrassment of their descendants. Dr Nick Draper from University College London, who has studied the compensation papers, says as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived all or part of their fortunes from the slave economy.
As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them. Dr Draper said: "There was a feeding frenzy around the compensation." A John Austin, for instance, owned 415 slaves, and got compensation of £20,511, a sum worth nearly £17m today. And there were many who received far more.
As I recall Britain paid out billions in reparations to the slave owners when slavery was abolished. So why not pay the folks who were actually enslaved?
How about because none of the people living in Jamaica right now were enslaved by the UK?
Note to Jamaica: the English were arseholes to everyone.
Love, Ireland
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