When slave owners accepted 'compensation'
from governments for the loss of their slaves
it was not just the ultimate in property values
repeating themselves over the value of humanity.
Those compensated became immeasurably wealthy
twice over again when they invested their wealth
in the trade in goods from the countries
where former slaves remained tied to the lands
where before they had been owned as slaves,
this time owned by the debts
that made them indentured labour.
In completing this cycle
of ownership without responsibility
the new 'traders' in human misery
became the ultimate passive citizens
of where their wealth came from.
Active citizenship of where the wealth was made
would have meant the rich dividing their riches
among the ex-slaves who had made 'the traders' so rich.
No such investment was forthcoming.
The truest solution for all those once colonised
was an independence via 'The Commonwealth'
where those peoples and countries could start again
to rediscover what being invested in actually meant.
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