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The legacy of British slave ownership
The historians behind the most detailed record of British slave ownership say they've noticed a marked increase in people accessing the online resource following the release of the film Twelve Years a Slave. In this extract the BBC's Reya El-Salahi meets Nick Draper, a historian from The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at UCL (University College London).
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