The City of London & The Slave Trade Part 6
Having spent five blog posts and many thousands of words listing those City of London aldermen (senior councillors) we could identify as directors of and investors in the slave trading Royal Africa Company, we feel we have sufficiently backed up the point made in part 2 of this series that in his tweet of 19 June 2020, the current City of London councillor Tijs Broeke cynically downplayed his predecessors role as key actors in the black holocaust. In that tweet Broeke disingenuously claimed Africa Company shareholders included just 15 lord mayors, 25 sheriffs and 38 aldermen. As can be seen from our recent posts the numbers are considerably higher than this and many senior councillors (aldermen) were directors of the Royal Africa Company, not just shareholders as Broeke – an apologist for the City of London council – spins it. What we have posted is very far from exhaustive and in due course we believe it will be possible to update it with more names. That said, we have done enough to demonstrate that Broeke’s tweet was a typically misleading piece of City of London propaganda.
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