The Ledger

They got paid. We have the receipts. £20 million to slave owners. £0 to the enslaved.

The National Debt Counter

£20,000,000

Compensation paid to slave owners (1833)

~£17 billion

Inflation-adjusted equivalent

2015

Year British taxpayers finished paying

£0

Paid to the enslaved

All Colonies

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