Legacies of British Slave-ownership

[Trajan]

UCL (UK Uni) put together this fantastic database of the legacies of slavery. I'm currently looking through the ''Commercial Legacy'' of slavery section and was at some of the names listed.

I mean it's a given that people benefited from slavery, after all the money had to go somewhere right. But just seeing the actual names of companies and the founders of current companies named as having ate of slavery is fascinating.

Here is the database:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/commercial/



For example

Alexander Baring
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/-1411131717

Barings Bank was an English merchant bank based in London, and one of the world's oldest merchant banks. It was founded in 1762 and was owned by the Baring family of German origin.[1] The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million ($1.3 billion) resulting from poor speculative investments, primarily in futures contracts, conducted by an employee named Nick Leeson working at its office in Singapore.

Imagine if you did that for America. Cacs are still eating of that shyt....Patna I'm still spending money from 1788.

 

[Trajan]

Charles Haden Adams (One of the 66 Members of the Provisional Committee of Lloyds Banking Group Limited)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/44653

Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four" clearing banks

 

[Poitier]

we coming for that money

 

[Couth]

And this is exactly why i fukking hate america. Whole thread just made me upset.