English ladies financed the Atlantic slave trade [on] London stock exchange, without ever setting foot in either Africa or the Caribbean [;] sweetened their four o'clock tea with snow-white sugar cubes produced in hellish plantations-about which they knew nothing #YuvalNoahHarari

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