The government of Catalonia has said the wealthy Spanish region must confront the past racism of its slave-trading history, after a documentary revealed how Catalan industrialists and seafarers profited from the transatlantic slave trade when the British abolished the practice in 1807.It has long been acknowledged that many Catalan fortunes including that of Antonio Gaudi's patron Eusebi Guell were made on the back of slave labour in the tobacco, sugar and cotton plantations of Cuba and, to a lesser extent, Puerto Rico.
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