Late night channel surfing
enabled me to catch on BBC2 the second part of David Olusoga’s documentary ‘Britain’s
Forgotten Slave Owners’, the first part of which I had similarly stumbled upon
last Thursday; I thought I had a thorough knowledge of our country’s
involvement in the slave trade and its abolition through reading such as Simon
Schama’s ‘Rough Crossing’, but this revelation of the crucial part financial
compensation to the owners played in facilitating the abolition was riveting
and instructive on so many levels – and as usual after such programmes I ask
myself why I don’t watch more TV like this.
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