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The Sunday Debate: Should the West pay Reparations for Slavery?
Intelligence Squared
The Slave Trade and Taxation
In 20 18, the hatomarcy t was a treasury released a tweat that had a surprising friday fact. In order to end the system of slavery, the government paid the biggest baler in the history of u. K,. the uk, of the uk Economy, to the slave owner. The actually paid reparations to the slave owners a figure so large they had to take out a loan from the treasury. It represented forty percent of the british government's purse at that time. That is a hundred million pounds reparations to hot the slave owners. And it wasn't just this. Ar, denmark, holland, spain all paid rep
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