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
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 
"In his famous 1944 book 'Capitalism and Slavery', the Trinidadian scholar Eric Williams argued that profits from slavery 'fertilised' many branches of the metropolitan economy and set the scene for England's industrial revolution'." http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/industrialisation_article_01.shtml
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
More about slave rebellions in the Caribbean here. They be knew #BlackLivesMatter "Throughout history, Jamaica was home to more slave rebellions than all of the other British islands combined." << doesn't surprise me. http://caribya.com/caribbean/history/slave.rebellion/
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