The Financial Footprint of Slavery: Unpacking Britain's Complicity Recent research has shed light on a dark chapter in Britain's financial past, one that is both shocking and unsurprising.
For centuries, the Bank of England and other British financial institutions were deeply embedded in the transatlantic slave trade, with many of their directors and founders being significant investors in the enslavement and trafficking of millions of Africans.
One of the most striking aspects of this research is the extent to which the Bank's early capital was formed from wealth generated by slavery.