Unit 5
Grades 9-10
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The Debt That Outlived Slavery Itself
In 2018, the UK Treasury's official social media account posted a message intended, apparently, as a piece of interesting historical trivia: that the 20 million pounds Britain borrowed in 1833 to compensate slaveholders had been such a large sum, equivalent to roughly 40 percent…
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