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  "text": "Loving Dennis Welch’s call to action here in the Post to get rid of Ellice St as a name",
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        "alt": "When slavery was officially abolished throughout the British Empire in 1834, it was thought right and proper to\npay compensation to those worst affected by such a major change.\nThat would be the slaveholders, of course - the \"owners\" dispossessed of their\n\"property\" (i.e. hundreds of thousands of enslaved people). For the enslaved ones themselves, not a penny.\nThe British government awarded the slaveholders a total of £20 million, which in today's money would be several billion dollars. Many of the recipients were businessmen and investors who reinvested the money to further enrich themselves",
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        "alt": "Now all sorts of people and institutions, from the Guardian to aristocratic families and Britain's National Trust, have acknowledged they owe their beginnings and/or their early wealth to slave money 200 or more years ago.\nSeveral American universities have renamed campuses and halls of residence originally named after slaveholders.\nThere may be many New Zealand streets, towns and institutions with similar antecedents.\nFor the moment, however, the question arises: should a familiar central Wellington street be allowed to retain the name of a man who made money out of the misery and oppression of enslaved people, and then even more money in \"compensation\" after the abolition of slavery?\nI don't feel comfortable about that. Do\nyou?\n- Wellingtonian Denis Welch is a journal-ist, author and former deputy editor for The Listener.",
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