Monumental failure: Fred Ashmore discovers why it took so long to end plantation slavery
‘It was not those enslaved who were compensated. It was the slaveholders, a vast network of British citizens.’
Some years ago I started walking the streets of London. I began following London’s Hidden Walks, a book I picked up absentmindedly at a bookshop in Bloomsbury.
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