"Database lets British find slave-owning ancestors" by Jill Lawless | Associated Press, February 28, 2013
LONDON — Potentially uncomfortable information: thousands of people who received compensation for loss of their ‘‘possessions’’ when slave ownership was outlawed by Britain in 1833....
Keith McClelland, a research associate on the project: ‘‘Relatively speaking, it is bigger than the bailout of the bankers in recent years.’’
Compensation for slave owners was opposed by abolitionists, who argued it was immoral, but it was approved as the political price of getting the abolition bill passed.
The database includes details on the 3,000 compensated slave owners who lived in Britain — rather than its colonies — and includes the ancestors of several present-day politicians and the writers Graham Greene and George Orwell....
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Anybody making a big deal of that? Didn't think so.
