My Taxes Paid Off Slave Owners

I want that blood money back

Hundreds of people of African descent took part in the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March on August 01, 2017 in London, England. Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Barcroft Im/Barcroft Media/Getty Images

Emancipation Day, or August 1, is to Black Britons what Juneteenth is to African Americans, but the difference is that just five years ago, we finally became “free” after paying off the national debt incurred for the release of our bondage. It wasn’t until 2015 that British citizens, including those descended from enslaved Africans, finished paying off the $25.7…