The Queen Anne’s Bounty was a fund established in 1704 to help support impoverished clergy in England. It invested heavily in the South Sea Company. The company held a monopoly on transporting enslaved people from Africa to Spanish-controlled ports in the Americas. According to the Church of England, between 1714 and 1739 the company transported 34,000 people on at least 96 voyages. The call for restitution has been a long-term one. That the Church of England is…
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