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Re:Carthago delenda est by pdonis on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:36PM (#20495019)
> Slaveholders were a tiny portion of the UK economy by the time of the 1833 abolition act

The payments to slaveholders were 40% of the British Treasury's annual income and about 5% of British GDP at that time. Hardly negligible.

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