That is what my studies showed. The British taxpayer paid off the debt that went to the white slaveholders and slaver trading corporations (many shares owned by the King’s family and aristocrats) for 150 years. I can’t imagine quite frankly how having the average working class bloke paying off the loss of slaves from abolition to the rich for so long doesn’t enrage the people in the UK. It’s just atrocious that average people paid taxes to the aristocrats and King’s family and yet the British hold such reverence for the monarchy. Well, I guess you get what you pay for.