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Charlie Gladstone: Rishi Sunak is completely wrong on slavery

John Gladstone owned or held mortgages over 2,508 enslaved Africans in Guyana and Jamaica in the 19th Century, and was paid more than £100,000 in compensation after the British Parliament passed a law to abolish slavery in most British colonies in 1833.

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