{"id":17521,"date":"2020-06-21T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2020-06-21T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T19:57:22","slug":"great-britains-multi-century-crime-spree-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17521","title":{"rendered":"GREAT BRITAIN’S MULTI-CENTURY CRIME SPREE AGAINST HUMANITY NEVER ENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity?<\/h1>\n

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After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation \u2013 but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.<\/h3>\n

By\u00a0Kris Manjapra<\/a><\/p>\n

O<\/span><\/span>n 3 August 1835, somewhere in the City of London, two of Europe\u2019s most famous bankers came to an agreement with the chancellor of the exchequer. Two years earlier, the British government had passed the Slavery Abolition Act, which outlawed slavery in most parts of the empire. Now it was taking out one of the largest loans in history, to finance the slave compensation package required by the 1833 act. Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore agreed to loan the British government \u00a315m, with the government adding an additional \u00a35m later. The total sum represented\u00a040% of the government\u2019s yearly income<\/a>\u00a0in those days, equivalent to some \u00a3300bn today.<\/p>\n

\"\"Slave trade routes in the 17th century. Photograph: Alamy<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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