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Unelected & secret but spending public money: political power of South West business elite

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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2015 · News & Politics

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10 million+ Estimated number of Native Americans living in land that is now the United States when European explorers first arrived in the 15th century
Less than 300,000 Estimated number of Native Americans living in the United States around 1900
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/native-americans/

The transatlantic slave trade (mainly 1600-1800) resulted in a vast and as yet still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside America. Approximately 1.2 – 2.4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World. More died soon upon their arrival. The number of lives lost in the procurement of slaves remains a mystery but may equal or exceed the number who survived to be enslaved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Human_toll

The deliberate mass destruction of American Indian populations following John Cabot and the European arrival in the Americas. Many of the deaths happened before European chroniclers arrived to record them.
Estimates of the pre-Cabot population vary widely, with scholarly estimates of 2 million to 18 million for North America. An estimated 80% to 90% of this population died through one or another means after the arrival of Europeans.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/American_Indian_Genocide
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/native-americans/

The Society of Merchant Venturers
http://www.flocs.com/websites/bristolslavery/people/merchantventurers.htm
The Bristol Merchant Venturers dates back to the 14th century. It was during this century of great trade that Bristol Merchants set up the Merchants Guild to share the burden of entertaining visitors who came to the port to set up trading links and to share any risk attached to setting up such new trade.
This Guild developed in strength and wealth throughout the next 200 years. But the Guild of Merchants, the Merchant Adventurers whose initiative and cash had opened up so many sea trade routes, were determined to keep out strangers. They pleaded to King Edward VI to grant them their own charter, which he did in 1552, authorising them to to form themselves into a guild to be called The Merchant Venturers' Society of Bristol
No other person could now engage in commerce beyond the seas, unless he had been admitted to the Society. This meant for centuries to come they would have control of the shipping entering and leaving the Port of Bristol.
In 1694, the Merchant Venturers Society organised protests against the monopoly the Royal African Company enjoyed in the slave trade, leading to the ending of this monopoly in 1698.
Throughout the 18th century many society members profited hugely from the slave trade and established fine homes for themselves in the city. They included the Pinney's, who built the Georgian House, and the Bright family both of whom made their fortunes in sugar.
With the decline of Bristol as a major port in the 19th century, the Society lost much of its influence. However there are still many reminders today of the influence these powerful merchants once had on the development of Bristol as a major trading city.
http://www.flocs.com/websites/bristolslavery/people/merchantventurers.htm

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