Prince William expresses 'profound sorrow' over Britain's role in 'abhorrent' slave trade

Fox News ^ | March 24, 2022 | Melissa Roberto

[Da Coyote]

Call me when that idiot apologizes for thinking anyone gives a ***t about anything he says.

[nickcarraway]

Do something about it. I thought slavery was allowed for Muslims like him?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well, that and invading and occupying half the countries in the world And calling it the British Empire. 😆

[Bonemaker]

Oh do bugger off Bill...knock off the groveling over stuff from centuries ago. Grow some pecans already.

[rollo tomasi]

From the good old BBC:

GROWING RICH WITH SLAVERY ROYALTY

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah. King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. King Gezo said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade:

"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…"

LIVING WITNESS

Some of the descendants of African traders are alive today. Mohammed Ibrahim Babatu is the great great grandson of Baba-ato (also known as Babatu), the famous Muslim slave trader, who was born in Niger and conducted his slave raids in Northern Ghana in the 1880's. Mohammed Ibrahim Babatu, the deputy head teacher of a Junior secondary school in Yendi, lives in Ghana.

"In our curriculum, we teach a little part of the history of our land. Because some of the children ask questions about the past history of our grandfather Babatu. Babatu, and others, didn't see anything wrong with slavery. They didn't have any knowledge of what the people were used for. They were only aware that some of the slaves would serve others of the royal families within the sub-region. He has done a great deal of harm to the people of Africa. I have studied history and I know the effect of slavery. I have seen that the slave raids did harm to Africa, but some members of our family feel he was ignorant…we feel that what he did was fine, because it has given the family a great fame within the Dagomba society. He gave some of the slaves to the Dagombas and then he sent the rest of the slaves to the Salaga market. He didn't know they were going to plantations…he was ignorant…"

SONGHAY

The young Moroccan traveler and commentator, Leo Africanus, was amazed at the wealth and quantity of slaves to be found in Gao, the capital of Songhay, which he visited in 1510 and 1513 when the empire was at the height of its power under Askiya Mohammed.

"...here there is a certain place where slaves are sold, especially on those days when the merchants are assembled. And a young slave of fifteen years of age is sold for six ducats, and children are also sold. The king of this region has a certain private palace where he maintains a great number of concubines and slaves."

SWAHILI

The ruling class of coastal Swahili society - Sultans, government officials and wealthy merchants - used non-Muslim slaves as domestic servants and to work on farms and estates. The craftsmen, artisans and clerks tended to by Muslim and freed men. But the divisions between the different classes were often very flexible. The powerful slave and ivory trader Tippu Tip was the grandson of a slave.

The Omani Sultan, Seyyid Said, became immensely rich when he started up cloves plantations in 1820 with slave labour - so successful was he that he moved the Omani capital to Zanzibar in 1840.

PUNISHED FOR KEEPING SLAVES

The Asanti (the capital, Kumasi, is in modern Ghana) had a long tradition of domestic slavery. But gold was the main commodity for selling. With the arrival of Europeans the slaves displaced gold as the main commodity for trade. As late as 1895 the British Colonial Office was not concerned by this.

"It would be a mistake to frighten the King of Kumasi and the Ashantis generally on the question of slavery. We cannot sweep away their customs and institutions all at once. Domestic slavery should not be troubled at present."

British attitudes changed when the King of the Asanti (the Asantehene) resisted British colonial authority. The suppression of the slave trade became a justification for the extension of European power. With the humiliation and exile of King Prempeh I in 1896, the Asanti were placed under the authority of the Governor of the Gold Coast and forced therefore to conform to British law and abolish the slave trade.

SLAVERY DECREED BY THE GODS

In 1807, Britain declared all slave trading illegal. The king of Bonny (in what is now the Nigerian delta) was dismayed at the conclusion of the practice.

"We think this trade must go on. That is the verdict of our oracle and the priests. They say that your country, however great, can never stop a trade ordained by God himself."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter2.shtml

[ChronicMA]

William is lucky that the branch of the royal family that the current royals descend from is not the James II descendants. James was the Duke of York before he became king. New York state and NYC is named after him, and as Duke he was the head of the largest slave company that ever existed in the British/colonial American world.

[escapefromboston]

Wow slavery fans BTFO!!!

[Cecily]

William probably just made the speech the UK government wanted him to make.

I hope the Jamaicans will enjoy kowtowing to their new lender/overlord China, who will never apologize or make amends to them for anything.

[Michael.SF.]

during a speech he delivered in Jamaica

Kamala's father is from Jamaica, his family owned slaves there, as he has admitted in a column he wrote years ago.

I think it is high time that Kamala owned up to this disgrace and offered her profound apologies for her families history.

[Jim Noble]

Didn’t the Royal Navy end the slave trade?

[IC Ken]

What about the WHITE slaves? They don’t count?

[V_TWIN]

And here is the money quote:

The Duke of Cambridge’s speech came just days after dozens of well-known leaders in Jamaica including professors and politicians demanded an apology and slavery reparations”

Reparations

SMH
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:10 NLT

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You should kill yourself in reparations, Chuck.

[rfreedom4u]

And the mooslim world still practice slavery today.

{crickets}

[T.B. Yoits]

I didn't see Prince Williams comment about how he feelz about current slavery.

How much stock does the crown hold in companies selling products made by Uighur slaves in China?

[JewishRighter]

The British Empire abolished slavery 215 years ago. How many more decades and centuries of guilt are required to expiate the “stain” that was part of the history of the rest of the world from ancient times until the present.

[DesertRhino]

A-hole.

[Sacajaweau]

It was how the world was...We changed it...Now we’re slaves to the Government...

[mewzilla]

While you’re at it, Willy, how about the opium trade, too...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Your absolved then, Willy.

You are now free to blame the peasants.