oatmeal, 7 months ago

“It’s not just even that they invested in these companies and made dividends off of or got customs revenue, It’s that they were willing to have their brand literally branded into the flesh of people. This was because, at the time, the slave trade was seen as the way to build an empire and the way to make money to funnel money back into the royal pocketbook.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/28/slave-trade-monarchy-uk-archives/
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