A taxpayer-funded database naming and shaming 6,500 British investors and companies with links to the slave trade is to be published, it was revealed today.
The Dictionary of British Slave Traders is a project supported by £1million in government funding using research by British historians and experts after a year where Black Lives Matter supporters have toppled statues and defaced monuments linked to the slave trade across the country.
The database – the largest of its kind in history – will include well known names such as the Duke of Chandos, Britain’s first Prime Minister Robert Walpole as well as brewery giant Greene King and insurer Lloyd’s of London.
