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@Oliver Schick
Here's some quality research (by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (LBS) project at UCL) into (what is now the London Borough of) Hackney-based slave owners and how they were compensated for the 'loss' of their slaves:
https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/heritage/the-last-slave-owners-of-hackney-1-6883908