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CSLBS's research features in BBC documentary: Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners

15 July 2024

The work of the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery to analyse historic compensation claims is profiled in a BBC documentary about the abolition of slavery: Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners.

A Black woman wearing white gloves is examining a pair of old handcuffs

In the first episode ‘Profit and Loss’, Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) said: “We needed to look at all the records [...] to know the scale of it”.

Watch: BBC 4 ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ (from 7 min, 11 sec)