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	Podcast:		Saturday Extra - Separate stories - ABC RN
	Episode:		British slave trade's long tentacles
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:14
	Publish Date:		2020-08-07 17:20:00
	Description:		Britain was one the leaders of the slave trade, profiting from buying and selling slaves in multiple countries. When the British Government banned it in the 1830s, the owners, not the slaves, were compensated. Their descendants were beneficiaries of that trade - and the compensation - and some of them came to Australia, bringing their slave-owning beliefs to positions of influence.
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