‘Every senior politician of the era seems to have been involved.’ Photo: by Justinc on Wikimedia Commons
Monumental failure: Fred Ashmore discovers why it took so long to end plantation slavery
‘It was not those enslaved who were compensated. It was the slaveholders, a vast network of British citizens.’
by Fred Ashmore
5th March 2021
Some years ago I started walking the streets of London. I began following London’s Hidden Walks, a book I picked up absentmindedly at a bookshop in Bloomsbury.
