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Under the 1837 Slave Compensation Act, the UK government borrowed £20m (over £2 billion in today's terms, £300b by some accounts) to pay off the families of slave-owners for releasing their slaves. This borrowing was only paid off in 2015 by British taxpayers.
The newly liberated people had received nothing.
University College London estimated that somewhere between 10-20% of Britain's wealthy can be identified as having had significant links to slavery.
