Compensation

Cards (10)

In what year Britain did what to its enslaved people
1834 , emancipated ( freed )
How much money did britain raise in compensation money
£20 million ( equivalent to £17 billion today )
Who was the compensation money paid to  
Not the enslaved people but Britain's slave owners for ‘loss of human property‘
When was the money borrowed for the slavery abolition act paid off  
2015
Who helped pay to the end of slave trade
Living British citizens
It was the largest what in British history  
State sponsored payout
Taxpayers money went straight into the pockets of who
People who had already profited from the transatlantic slave trade
Who was set up to process what
The slave compensation commission , the claims for compensation
How many claims for compensation were there  
46,000 in all
the SCC records uncover what  
How deeply slave ownership had infiltrated 19th century society and reveals many of us have connects to britain slave owning past