Slave Trade: Apology Is Nothing Without Compensati..

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Slave Trade: Apology Is Nothing Without Compensation

The Dutch PM forgets, or more likely prefers to ignore, the fact that when the Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, the British government offered to pay a £20 million “compensation” (about £17 billion today) not to the Africans enslaved, but to the slave-owners who considered abolition as a loss of their property.

Read more: https://towncrier.com.ng/2023/....01/16/slave-trade-ap TOWN CRIER. Kindly REBROADCAST.