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There is a wider context. Their owners were compensated but the slaves were not. Slave owning was a financial product and the owners were often middle class Britons https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/bbc/ Little was done to improve the lot of the victims of slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morant_Bay_rebellion. https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/the-slave-trade-and-abolition/sites-of-memory/ending-slavery/slavery-after-1807/ https://scholar.library.miami.edu/emancipation/trade2.htm
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