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The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837. It empowered the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, under the direction of the Treasury, to either pay the compensation that was still owing to slave owners out of the West India Compensation Account, or to transfer a proportionate amount of 3½% government annuities. The various acts of William IV relating to slave compensation were to be considered, as far as applicable, to apply to this act. Slave owners were paid approximately £20 million in compensation in over 40,000 awards for slaves freed in the colonies of the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope according to a government census that named all owners as of 1 August 1834. University College London has set up a project ''Legacies of British Slave-ownership'' which aims to list the individuals who received compensation. They estimate that about 15% of the wealth in Britain can be identified as having had significant links to slavery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/context/ )〕 ==References== *''The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for the year 1839''. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1839. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slave Compensation Act 1837」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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