Exclusive: The British companies that made money from slavery – and its abolition

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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Nine UK businesses, many of them high street banks, benefited directly or indirectly from money linked to the abolition of slavery. Read more:

In the early 19th century, Benjamin Greene was running his brewery in Bury St Edmonds when, according to reports, he became friendly with his neighbour Sir Patrick Blake, the owner of sugar plantation holdings in the West Indies.

 

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