Category Archives: Entitlements

The Prime Minister of Barbados has helpfully calculated how much Britain owes in reparations for slavery. She says that it comes to $24tn. In case you wonder how much that is in real money, it is 19 thousand billion pounds. Where we will find this sum is an interesting point.

There is no doubt that the trade in enslaved Africans was a terrible thing, but it is possible that the transatlantic slave trade was not the worst as far as deaths go. The Arabs operating in East Africa probably were responsible for more deaths overall.