The British slave trade was abolished by an act of Parliament in 1807. The Rotschild banking enterprise in Britain started in 1805.
Slavery as such was not abolished in the British empire until 1833. In 1837 a Slave Compensation Act was passed which compensated slave owners in the Colonies. Such liberal luminaries as Gladstone helped to pass this law. The Rotschilds were involved in financing a huge loan taken by the British State pay for the compensation to the slave owners,
This is the background to the canard that the Rotschilds financed the slave trade.
He was just the middle man who transported across the ocean. Strange how we never hear of the original sellers.
“it is common knowledge that the Rothschilds and the bank of England”
Perhaps I should have said ‘both the Rothschilds and the Bank of England’ which wouldn’t have sounded so synonymous.
Or perhaps it was the East India Company that greased the skids of the Triangular Trade? The financial aspect of such a large and long term “endeavour” didn’t appear out of thin air.