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The Hankey family of 10 Brunswick Square, Hove, received £50,000 compensation for freeing slaves in the 1830s. In today's money, that is worth almost £6 million.

Thousands of British individuals made a fortune out of the abolition of slavery, when they received astonishingly high compensation from the Slave Compensation Commission, which was active from 1833 to 1842. In some instances, those compensation payments formed the basis of tremendous windfalls...