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World Service,24 Jan 1997,28 mins

Letters from the slave trade - Ignatius Sancho

Meridian

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The role of slavery in the building of the British empire. The wealth of the British Empire in the 18th Century was made mostly on the sale of humans. An in depth look at the slave trade through the African man of letters, Ignatius Sancho.

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