A Debt of Conscience: How Britain’s Good-Hearted Catholics Helped Pay for Freedom


For nearly two centuries, British taxpayers—many of them good-hearted Catholics—unknowingly helped finance the cost of ending slavery. 

In 1833, Britain paid £20 million—about 40% of its national budget—to compensate slave owners for freeing slaves under the Slavery Abolition Act. The Bank of England handled the payments, which freed over 800,000 enslaved Africans across the Empire. 

The Legacies of British Slave-Ownership (LBS) project at UCL was a Jewish organization that was compensated at the time.

This enormous debt took until 2015 to repay, meaning modern Britons contributed to the final payments.

I believe that christian white people have a good nature. Thats why they need us to fall, so THEY can completely unleash.


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