Was the 1834 abolition of slavery a moral triumph — or a stain given Britain compensated slave owners, not the enslaved?
The £20 million paid to slave owners in 1834 was so vast that taxpayers only finished repaying it in 2015. Two centuries on, Britain still debates whether abolition was genuine moral progress or a cynical financial settlement.
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