Was the 1834 abolition of slavery undermined by the Β£20 million compensation paid to slave owners?
Britain finally ended slavery in its colonies in 1834, but the eye-watering payout went to former owners, not the enslaved. Taxpayers only finished paying off the loan in 2015.
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