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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ZH6GLYcqbXE/database-documenting-payouts-t.html
Database documenting payouts to UK slave-owners to be launched for public use
The British government paid out 20m to compensate 3,000 slave-owning families for the loss of their "property" when slave ownership was abolished in Britain's colonies in 1833. At the time, that sum amounted to 40% of the UK's annual spending budget; today, one could calculate the value at around USD $25 billion. In The Independent, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ZH6GLYcqbXE/database-documenting-payouts-t.html
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