EVENT INFORMATION

3
Ougùstùs
1835

Parliament debates and authorizes the slaveholder compensation loan

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📅 3 Ougùstùs 1835 📍 Reino Uni

On 3 August the Commons debated Treasury resolutions to raise and distribute the £20 million compensation authorized by the Abolition Act. Parliament structured public borrowing to reimburse slaveowners; the millions emerging from enslavement received no comparable payment. The official Hansard record makes visible whose property and losses the state treated as compensable.

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British Treasury

House of Commons

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UK Parliament

Bank of England