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More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade
Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research reveals More than 1,000 women invested in the slave trade, challenging the conventional notion that they were passive beneficiaries and…
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