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Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not morality ended British Enslavement
35 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2023 at 10:34 pm.
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We start this 5-part series by trying to give a factual outline of the experience of being transported in horrendous conditions from Africa to the British Caribbean against your will. And we open up the debate started in 1938 by the brilliant young Trinidadian historian Eric Williams as to whether it was money or morality that ended British enslavement? The trade in the enslaved was banned in 1807, the enslaved were 'emancipated' in 1833.