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The database created by Catherine Hall which details all those people who got paid compensation for loss of slave property and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We ALL finished paying off that debt in 2015 as the govt had to borrow to pay. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/firm/view/1116227371">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/firm/...
http://www.mjilonline.org/the-united-nations-and-reparations-for-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-and-colonialism/">https://www.mjilonline.org/the-unite... "the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (“DDPA”) acknowledged the historic and modern-day practices of slavery and the slave trade as morally disgraceful, and activities that would be listed as a crime against humanity today."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/lloyds-of-london-and-greene-king-to-make-slave-trade-reparations">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... this needs to be tracked. What do they mean about reparations? How much? Where is the money actually going?
How Britain and British people benefited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. When people say they cannot be blamed for their ancestors. Or things were in the past. Generational wealth and/or white privilege has persisted and remains today. http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_45.html ">https://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_4...
When people say they didnt know the history of the UKs involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and it was really mostly in the USA (where have we heard "I didn& #39;t know" before eh?) There are records in the National Archive. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/">https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with...
The very fabric of British life celebrated slave owners and traffickers by building monuments to these white men. Who also knew what they did was dodgy so they paid their way by building schools hospitals etc and providing scholarships. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-08/statues-buildings-and-streets-across-the-uk-that-commemorate-the-slave-trade/">https://www.itv.com/news/2020...
Some more modern companies that were built from profits from the transatlantic slave trade. https://face2faceafrica.com/article/6-thriving-companies-in-the-u-s-and-uk-that-profited-from-slave-trade">https://face2faceafrica.com/article/6...
"In his famous 1944 book & #39;Capitalism and Slavery& #39;, the Trinidadian scholar Eric Williams argued that profits from slavery & #39;fertilised& #39; many branches of the metropolitan economy and set the scene for England& #39;s industrial revolution& #39;." http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/industrialisation_article_01.shtml">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/b...
Some slave rebellions in the Caribbean. Our ancestors did not accept their bondage. They resisted in so many ways. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/slavery-negotiating-freedom.htm">https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbean...
More about slave rebellions in the Caribbean here. They be knew #BlackLivesMatter 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> "Throughout history, Jamaica was home to more slave rebellions than all of the other British islands combined." << doesn& #39;t surprise me. http://caribya.com/caribbean/history/slave.rebellion/">https://caribya.com/caribbean...
How the most famous rebellion and victory was dealt with financially. "In 1825, barely two decades after winning its independence against all odds, Haiti was forced to begin paying enormous “reparations” to the French slaveholders it had overthrown." https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/12/06/in-1825-haiti-gained-independence-from-france-for-21-billion-its-time-for-france-to-pay-it-back/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/rea...
