Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga

BBC Two England

11:50 PM to 12:50 AM

Tuesday 22 September

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Part one of two. David meets the historians who have built the Register of British Slave Traders, piecing together a comprehensive picture of more than 13,000 individuals who were investors in the slave trade, showing the links between modern British institutions and the trade in human beings. He begins by revealing how the monarchy drove the early British slave trade, with Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts giving their support to early slavery ventures