RT @SirGeoffPalmer: Our History/Our Slavery/Purchasing potential: Noticed in an old Edinburgh newspaper that in 1835, 19 Melville Street, Edinburgh, was worth…£1450. In 2021 it was worth…£2,500,000. In 1834 Sir John Gladstone, Edinburgh, received £106,769 govt. compensation for his freed slaves…

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