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  • HISTORYExpand
    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
  • WHO PAYS?Expand
    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The double liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
  • THE LAWExpand
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
  • CARICOMExpand
    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • Does the money even work?
    • What would actually be fair?
  • SOURCESExpand
    • Sources and further reading
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In this section
  • Narrowing the pool
  • The Irish and their own grievances
  • Eastern Europeans and other recent arrivals
  • The British working poor
    • Who actually profited from slavery and who did not
    • Press-ganged sailors, indentured labourers, agricultural serfs
    • Class liability versus racial liability
  • Recent immigrants from non-slave-trading nations
  • The infographic: filtering to what remains
Narrowing the pool

The British working poor

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  • HISTORY
    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
  • WHO PAYS?
    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The double liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
  • THE LAW
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
  • CARICOM
    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • Does the money even work?
    • What would actually be fair?
  • SOURCES
    • Sources and further reading