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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britainâs financial system, research finds (opens the original)
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Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britainâs slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial systemâs involvement in enslavement is greater than p
How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners (opens the original)
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Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade There is a British culture of celebrating the abolition of slavery without acknowledging that the country enslaved and trafficked millions of African people for centuries. The newly published Register of British Slave Traders, which documents the thousands of investors in Britain’s near 250-year trafficking of more than 3 million enslaved African people, shows that it was a stat
The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britainâs monarchy and the slave trade (opens the original)
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From Elizabeth Iâs backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britainâs slave trade Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchyâs centuries-long involvement in Britainâs slave trade. The Register of British Slave Traders identifies thousands of people who invested in Britainâs trafficking of enslaved Africans, in
Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britainâs slave-trading past (opens the original)
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Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today The enormous scale of Britainâs centuries-long trafficking of enslaved African people, supported by parliament and the monarchy, has been laid bare by new research. The Register of British Slave Traders, the product of a three-year project by a team of specialist historians, documents the investors in Britainâs near 250-year transa
What is the Register of British Slave Traders and who does it identify? (opens the original)
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Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans The Register of British Slave Traders is the product of three years of research by a team of historians into all known investors in Britain’s near 250 years of trafficking enslaved African people, from the 16th to 19th centuries. It provides profiles and biographical details of thousands of people who financed the British slave trade, which violently trafficked approximately 3 million A
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