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In 1833, Britain abolished slavery by paying £20 million in compensation to slave owners, and subsequently spent decades deploying the Royal Navy globally to intercept slave ships and liberate approximately 150,000 people. The massive £20 million debt used to compensate slave owners was consolidated into permanent government bonds and serviced by generations of British taxpayersContinue reading “Paid The Masters, Policed The Oceans”