Britain paid £20 million to compensate slave owners when slavery was abolished. But what did the formerly enslaved receive? Nothing.
In this powerful and thought-provoking article, Dr Diahanne Rhiney challenges Britain to confront an uncomfortable truth: the financial debt to enslavers was honoured, but the debt of justice to the enslaved remains unpaid.
Who benefited? Who was forgotten? And why does this history still matter today?
Read The Invoice Britain Paid to the Wrong Side.
What happens when Britain’s history is no longer told through monuments, wealth and institutions, but through the ledger behind them?
Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga brings names, companies, royal connections and fortunes into focus, forcing us to confront how deeply the transatlantic slave trade was embedded in British society.
In “The Crown in the Ledger,” we explore what these records reveal about wealth, power, responsibility and the legacy that remains today.
Read the full article and ask yourself: who owns what, who benefited, and what does honest accounting look like?
