Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners – with David Olusoga

Join David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and Katie Donington, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, as they discusses ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ following the BBC Two documentary broadcast earlier this year. Expect a look at the scale of the slave trade, and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their ‘loss of property’.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David Olusoga, Department of History, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Katie Donington, slavery