"It’s hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British slave owners in 1835 because of the abolition of slavery" taxjustice.net/2020/06/09/sla…
Another #Fridayfact: millions of taxpayers were forced to help slave owners mitigate their losses while the enslaved received nothing. 
A bit mindboggling to think that people of the Windrush generation paid taxes to compensate those who enslaved their ancestors, and were then told they weren't British and had to leave.
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