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Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners (2015)

Season 1

How Britain as we know it was built on the profits of slavery, with abolition involving the shocking decision to compensate slave owners for their loss of 'property'.

Released July 15, 2015 Episode 59 min None+
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S1E1 - Profit and Loss

Documentary about the abolition of slavery. Huge sums of money were paid out in compensation, not to slaves, but to slave owners.
July 15, 2015, midnight

S1E2 - The Price of Freedom

David Olusoga traces the bitter propaganda war waged between the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists.
July 22, 2015, midnight
BBC Two
59 min/ep
119 min
July 15, 2015
July 22, 2015, midnight
Ended
NR

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