Talk:Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

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Extraneous info[edit]

The information on the Clarkes interrupts the flow of the article about Fox. If it's worth putting on Wikipedia, it belongs in an article about the Clarkes or any of their famous descendants, or in a box at the bottom where it won't interfere with the flow. 4.249.3.3 (talk) 20:17, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"compensation for slavery"[edit]

As of 20240124 the section on "Ownership of slaves" reads:

"With the Slave Compensation Act 1837 in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the government paid compensation for slavery not to enslaved people but to slaveholders. Lord Holland was compensated under three awards for slaves on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife, Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall)."

The form "compensation for slavery" clearly makes no sense either now or in the context of the time as people then understood it. No one then claimed that these payments were any kind of "compensation for slavery" as in compensation for the institution having existed or compensation to its sufferers. They were paying former owners for confiscation of former property. That Holland was one of those slave owners and is being noted here for modern readers as having been such is, presumably, the whole point. I appreciate that a previous writer must have been aiming for easy irony as a form of editorial comment, but it is neither appropriate here nor did it actually work in the sentence structure that was provided. I have made the minimal possible edit to this effect:

"With the Slave Compensation Act 1837 in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the government paid compensation to former slaveholders. Lord Holland was compensated under three awards for slaves on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife, Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall)." Random noter (talk) 15:56, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]