Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners from powerful families notoriously received huge sums in compensation, while those who ...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/23/british-corporation-continued-trafficking-of-enslaved-africans-to-guyana-40-years-after-abolition-reveals-letter)