Winners and Losers

Human Resources by Sony Music

Mar 22, 202232:56Society & Culture

We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – and who the winners and losers were among the people who were trying to profit fro...

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