A nation that preached liberty kept the receipts.
A Slave-Trade Register Shows Britain Was Not a Bystander
Historian William Pettigrew, writing in The Guardian, argues that a surviving 18th-century slave-trade register shows Britain was not a reluctant participant but the central engine of the transatlantic trade. Drawing on the ledgers of merchants and ships, he contends the records name the owners, captains and investors who built fortunes on enslaved people, and that the register itself is the proof of how deeply the trade was woven into British commerce, law and public life.
Source: A Slave-Trade Register Shows Britain Was Not a Bystander — The Guardian
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