{
  "id": 7715660,
  "title": "Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/slave-trade-wealth-was-embedded-in-britains-financial-system-research",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T05:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/slave-trade-wealth-britain-financial-system-bank-of-england-enslaved-africans"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}