BBC Teach - How wealthy slave owners entered British aristocracy

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Historian David Olusoga visits Harewood House to explore how the wealth of slave owners returning from abroad in the mid-eighteenth century paid for monumental country estates at home - and sometimes elevation in to the British aristocracy.

by the mid 18th century as slave owners in the Caribbean became increasingly wealthy from their sugar plantations they started to return home bringing with them their fortunes