Yes they made a financial commitment to various states, companies, and individuals to compensate slave owners for their financial loss when Britain ended the slave trade. I think that was pragmatic and commendable. I don’t see how that addresses me comment.
Comment on Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade
byroon@lemmy.world 9 months agoThe UK government was still paying off former slaveowners as recently as a few years ago
JasSmith@kbin.social 9 months ago
RobotToaster@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Paying off the loan they took out to compensate the slave owners for their “property” to be more precise.
As repugnant as that was, it was still preferable to the terrible waste of life the USA endured fighting a civil war over slavery.