The Red Door

24 Forth Street, Edinburgh
This is one of the many Edinburgh properties listed in the records of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership where a previous owner in the early 19th Century made a  claim for compensation in respect of the emancipation of the owner's slaves in Jamacia. 
 In 1833, Britain emancipated its enslaved people and raised the equivalent of £17bn in compensation money. But that money wasn't paid to the enslaved people – it was given to Britain's slave-owners for 'loss of human property.