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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlordIn new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
How so many thousands grew rich on the proceeds of slave labour, and how this money laid the foundations for the British Empire and Britain's modern economy.' DAVID OLUSOGA:Just beneath is another ...
The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UNThe great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...
Historian David Olusoga investigates how British slave owners fought for compensation as the government moved towards abolishing slavery within the Empire in 1832. He outlines how abolitionists ...
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