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by eru
1192 days ago
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> The British government borrowed £20 million to compensate slave owners, which amounted to a massive 40 percent of the Treasury’s annual income or about 5 percent of British GDP. The loan was one of the largest in history. I wonder how that compares (perhaps as percentage of GDP or per capita or so) to the expenses of the American civil war. |
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