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2024-03-26 01:22:40 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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There is a wider context to abolition. Owners were compensated but the slaves were not and slave owning had become a financial product by the 1830s and many owners were middle class Britons who had never seen a plantation. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/bbc/ https://scholar.library.miami.edu/emancipation/trade2.htm
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