We Need To Talk About Race: Understanding the Black Experience in White Majority Churches

by Ben Lindsay

of the Industrial Revolution, which was a direct result of the wealth generated from the slave trade, or our current banking system, which can trace its roots to financing and insuring slave ships (the Bank of England, Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays to name a few). Even though the slave trade ended in 1833, the UK, through colonialism and neocolonialism still profited from countries impacted by slavery in the first place. From ordinary UK middle-class families to current well-known UK millionaires, there are scores of people who benefited from UK government compensation at the end of the slave trade, through inherited wealth.