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From: "Marika Sherwood" msherwood@phonecoop.coop ------------------ For me, the numbers of the enslaved transported is one part of the story. And even in this part, we have no idea how many were killed in the wars fought to obtain prisoners-of-war or in the kidnappings. Then there were those who died on the march to the coast, and in those execrable prisons while awaiting shipment. Another side of the story is: who made all the money? At long last here in Britain there is research on the compensation records held in our National Archives. (British owners of enslaved Africans could claim compensation from the British govt. for having to free them - £20 million[(c. £1,300 million today] was handed out to claimants. Most of the money was a loan from Rothschilds - who, this recent research has uncovered, also claimed compensation for some hundreds of enslaved Africans.) On the ineffectiveness of the 1807 slave trade abolition Act of Parliament and subsequent international agreements, please see my After Abolition (IB Tauris, 2007) Marika Sherwood
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