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Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says

When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners from powerful families notoriously received huge sums in compensation, while those who were enslaved got nothing.

Now evidence has come to light that Sandbach, Tinne and Company – a corporation closely linked to the merchants who got the biggest taxpayer-funded compensation payouts – continued to traffic enslaved Africans illegally after abolition to Guyana, in South America.

The discovery is detailed in a book, Searching for My Slave Roots, by author Malik Al Nasir, who has been researching his family history.

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[-] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No worries a new college wing of a hefty donation in the right place will clean that for a few more years... It worked before why not now

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