2015
1h

Summary Two-part documentary looking at the abolition of slavery in Britain and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their loss of 'property'. View more details

2015
1h

Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : David Olusoga

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Jul 14, 2015

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Jul 14, 2015

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

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Episode 1 • Jul 14, 2015

Profit and Loss

David Olusoga reveals how more than 40,000 ordinary middle or lower class Britons in Georgian times owned thousands of slaves on plantations in British overseas territories such as Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada, Antigua, St Vincent and Tobago, and why the British government set up The Slave Compensation Commission to pay out around 20 millions pounds in compensation to British slave owners when slavery was abolished in 1834. The story of their involvement in the slave trade began when a group of around 50 British settlers together with their indentured servants landed on the then uninhabited island of Barbados in 1627.

Episode 2 • Jul 21, 2015

The Price of Freedom

David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.

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