Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

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1. Wed, 16 September 2026

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     Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

     Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than...