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Indian Indentured Labour
Misha Glenny and guests discuss how, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, sugar planters recruited workers from India to replace or compete with their formerly enslaved labourers. Over the next 90 years, more than a million people in …
Church of Scotland accused of 'well-intentioned folly' as it apologises for role in the slave trade
The Church of Scotland has apologised for its 'historical involvement in transatlantic chattel slavery and its enduring consequences'.