Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

2015 · 1 season · 2 eps · ★ 10.0

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How Britain as we know it was built on the profits of slavery, with abolition involving the shocking decision to compensate slave owners for their loss of 'property'.

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