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a.) My family weren't slaves, they were British colonial second-class subjects. b.) They were killed in the 1920s, way after Britain decided to compensate its
by fakedang 1y ago
a.) My family weren't slaves, they were British colonial second-class subjects.
b.) They were killed in the 1920s, way after Britain decided to compensate its slavers.
c.) The whole payment to slaves till 2015 is not real, it's just a quirk of how the payments were structured via annuities - in fact the payments were done by the 1840s.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-collection-of-slavery-compensation-1835-43 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-colle...
d.) The slaves themselves never received any compensation.