Richard Blake's ancestors were able to buy a Scottish estate with their profits from slavery.
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While he took an interest in the artwork, he said, he didn't have any real inkling of what lay behind the family privileges and wealth.Mr Blake was working as a partner in a legal practice in a former bank building in Perth when the nearby River Tay flooded in January 1993. Through his research Mr Blake learned that John and his brother, Francis - whose son was the painter Sir Francis - left Scotland as teenagers in the 1750s.It was one of the British empire's leading sugar producers where, by 1800, about a third of the island's estates were owned by Scots and heavily reliant on slavery.John eventually became Chief Justice of Jamaica while his brother bought a plantation of his own along with enslaved people to work it.
"I calculated that the cumulative returns by Scottish sojourners in the West Indies between 1784 and 1858 was the equivalent of £894m in modern values," he said.Laura Trevelyan then quit the BBC after 30 years to become a full-time slavery reparations campaigner.
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