The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans, Guardian report

Many enslaved people were also branded with “DY” (Duke of York, cursed title), for James, later James II, as the piece says the most important English slave trader of C17th. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. I’ve often said it should be taken down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade

Radburn found a letter sent by the company’s board to its agents in Buenos Aires, instructing them to brand enslaved people with hot metal. The brand bore a crown, a symbol of the British monarchy’s role in the trade.

'Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in Britain’s slave trade.' #Skystorians

Launched today: The Register of British Slave-Traders "presents biographical data related to each of the known investors in the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries." britishslavetraders.org/about-us/ #History #EnslavedHistory

From a series of articles called Enslaving Nation tracing a network of 13,000 people who traded in enslaved Africans named in the Register of British Slave Traders. This includes the monarchy whose crown was burned onto Africans as a mark of ownership. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

🤔 We desperately need an honest reckoning with our rancid past... #ApologiseNow #ReparationsNow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

“It was a merciless, monarchy supported company,” Radburn said of the South Sea Company “and the trafficking of enslaved people was the heart of it.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

The Register of British Slave Traders, the new historical record for which Radburn was a lead investigator, documents how Britain’s enslaving and trafficking of more than 3 million African people for nearly 250 years was perpetrated as an official national enterprise, led by its monarchs.

Dear colleagues and friends, I strongly urge you to read @Nicholas Radburn's intriguing essay in The Guardian to learn more about the historical connection between Britain's monarchy and the slave trade: shorturl.at/cLHuQ

The British monarchy wasn’t merely adjacent to slavery .... it invested in, organised and profited from it. Enslaved Africans were even branded with the royal crown. “Sorrow” is not enough. This history demands acknowledgement, apology and a serious conversation about reparations. #Apology

Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga explores the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain’s trade in enslaved Africans from its first tentative steps in the 16th century to abolition of the trade in 1807. BBC 21st September. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

children branded at three years of age with a hot iron King William IV who relished drinking and 'debauchery' on Caribbean plantations wish we could have more clarity about what the tongue-in-cheek term 'debauchery' means in such contexts did it include raping enslaved African women and children

There are a lot of wealthy families from the British Isles that are still living off the wealth that was generated by their investment in the slave trade. What was galling as well when the British got rid of the trade it was the slave trade groups that were compensated with public money.

I woke up to find Nick Radburn on the front of the Guardian this morning! This is such important evidence of the intentionality of a wide range of people in the violence of the slave trade. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...