
S6 Ep2: Slavery and the industrial revolution
VoxTalks Economics
The Legacies of British Slavery Database
Slavery database contains the names of 25,000 individuals and their addresses received these 20 million in 1833 money. In today's money probably 120 billion or some put by block. Some families that are very heavily involved own an awful lot of wealth in terms of slaves. There's also quite a few who hold only one or two slaves.
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