The main lesson is that the royal family benefited from the slave trade more than anyone else in this country. If anyone should be forced to pay compensation it is certainly them and one in five of the rich bastards in the UK who also owe their fortunes to slavery.
The Bank of England made capital available for slave voyages and the City of London became the financial centre of the slave trade.
Politicians talk smugly about the abolition of the slave trade. They forget that British capitalism had to have a slave trade, and a massively profitable one, in order for it to be abolished. The profits of slavery were falling before abolition was considered.
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