Neutral, non-colonizing Switzerland profited heavily from the slave trade

Evidence

I was interested to learn from Huber that Fässler was also an early reparations advocate who had written about why Switzerland, which prides itself on being a neutral country that did not colonize any countries, still made a tremendous amount of money in the slave trade, shipping human cargo to slave-owning countries—and therefore, Fässler argued, should participate in reparations. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 259

Huber explained that she and Hans Fässler were part of a transatlantic committee rallying journalists, artists, historians, and scholars from Germany, Switzerland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Brazil, and beyond to expose Louis Agassiz as a racist separatist whose theories were used not only to support slavery in the United States, but also eugenics in Europe and by the framers of apartheid in South Africa. … Fässler was also an early reparations advocate who had written about why Switzerland, which prides itself on being a neutral country that did not colonize any countries, still made a tremendous amount of money in the slave trade, shipping human cargo to slave-owning countries—and therefore, Fässler argued, should participate in reparations. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 255

Categorization

• XREF: This extends the reparations argument beyond the US — a comparative case for who owes what. — connects to: Swiss hospitality made Switzerland the indispensable physical base for the early neoliberal network — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 151
• SHARE: Good for someone with a Swiss-history or reparations interest.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 259; Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 255