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    1. Daniel Hannan‏Verified account @DanielJHannan 11 Jun 2020

      Yes, British people were prepared to pay to abolish slavery. They weren’t just against it in the abstract; they wanted to make a personal contribution to hasten the end of the foul business. The debt was only recently paid off. Surely a cause for pride rather than shame. #BBCQT

      261 replies 725 retweets 2,955 likes
    2. Sunder Katwala‏ @sundersays 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @DanielJHannan

      Surely grubby and regrettable if it was pragmatically necessary. It's a lot of money for the slave-owners

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    3. Daniel Hannan‏Verified account @DanielJHannan 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @sundersays

      And what was the alternative? To carry on with years, maybe decades, more of the horror?

      13 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    4. Sunder Katwala‏ @sundersays 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @DanielJHannan

      If it was pragmatically necessary, I can accept the grubby compromise. But it can't be a source of pride that the money was paid, since it accepts the case that the human beings were property, so had to accept the principle/legitimacy of slavery to bring it to an end.

      0 replies 0 retweets 27 likes
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    6. Sunder Katwala‏ @sundersays 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @JamesSpivey1 @DanielJHannan

      Question here was not whether to do it. But whether to take pride in it. "The abolitionists agonised over it" David Olusoga has written, on exactly this point about slavery and property. So this was a c19th view as well.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Daniel Hannan‏Verified account @DanielJHannan 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @sundersays @JamesSpivey1

      Very true. My point is that the willingness of taxpayers to make a substantial contribution shows that support for abolition was not just lip service. People really meant it. At a time when slavery was widespread across the world, that should indeed be a source of pride.

      4 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    8. Sunder Katwala‏ @sundersays 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @DanielJHannan @JamesSpivey1

      Ok. In the sense of being willing to pay a price. But it's a big share of GDP for slave owners and not for slaves

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Georgus Porgus‏ @GeorgusPorgus99 11 Jun 2020
      Replying to @sundersays @DanielJHannan @JamesSpivey1

      By giving the sums of money to the West indies plantation owners, they could pay (if not a living wage) for those former slaves to work as apprentices, and so still have an income to buy food and survive, rather than unemployed and die. Slavery should not have happened either way

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @GeorgusPorgus99 @sundersays and

      OR YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN THE MONEY TO THE FORMER SLAVES

      3:05 AM - 12 Jun 2020
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