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What does developmental history reveal that's hard to see any other way?: The Story
The compensation bonds In 1833, Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire. In 1838, it began compensating the slaveholders — twenty million pounds, roughly forty percent of the national budget, paid not to the enslaved but to the people who had owned them....