Posted on 03/01/2020 4:08:23 AM PST by C19fan
The role slavery and cheap labour played in the foundation and vast wealth of the British Empire has been highlighted by a New York museum. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has redesigned its British galleries to illustrate how cultural traditions that sprang from the empire fitted alongside opulent wealth amassed from slave labour. The renovation cost roughly $22 million and has transformed the museum's exhibits of British decorative arts over a 400-year period. Through nearly 700 works created between 1500 and 1900, the suite of 10 galleries gives 'a fresh perspective' on Britain's entrepreneurial spirit and complex history.
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And then the Empire set up slave patrols and effectively ended slavery. Will they cover that too?
Turnaround is fair play. All the Brits ever do is talk down America and American achievement. Don’t be so thin-skinned.
Of course not, it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Lets see the Africans did it, the romans did it, the Spaniards did it, the Greeks did it, the Russians did it, the Chinese did it, but it was the british...............more crap from the left socialist commies ginning up slavery and keeping racism alive
.
The Metropolitan Museum of Agenda.
and what about the wealth generated from patent law, development of the sciences that buoyed the patents.... all culminating in the Industrial revolution?
.... or are they trying to say the black were responsible for that too?
The industrial revolution processed much money as the greatness of Britain came through, powering Britain in global trade and commerce.
It’s whitey, these same people which had a huge hand in the freeing of the slaves in 1820 globally while islam kept running slaves. There are over a dozen nations in Africa where islam still openly practices slavery today.
Did they stop to mention islam and it’s role in the trans Sahara slave trade?
Did they stop to mention mansa musu and his involvement?
The hate mongers are blinded and have lost any form of understanding and objectivity.
let’s ask Louis Farakhan about his muslim brothers and their role in the trade.
let’s get some truth happening! lol
The Chinese, the American globalists and many others are still doing it today, i.e. exploiting cheap labor to get fabulously rich.
This was the whole world before the 19th century.
It was the British Empire that ended the slave trade out of moral rather than economic grounds.
Enough with the self flagellation. The West should be proud of its itself. It gave rise to the entire modern world - not only all the technology and all the systems but also concepts like Democracy and the Rights of Man.
How about Ivy League universities disgorge their unjust enrichment stemming from slave trading profits - adjusted for inflation.
It will run well into the billions.
Acknowledge this also:
Slavery was a fundamental part of all civilizations, from the dawn of history until the 19th century, when Western Civilization outlawed slavery!
It is Western Civilization--including Great Britain and the United States--that made slavery illegal and eliminated it from their jurisdictions!
Slavery is one of the most hideous evils ever devised by man or the devil!
Unfortunately, slavery still exists in the world today--yes, in the 21st century--but NOT in the nations in which Western Civilization and Christianity prevail.
Those interested in fighting against this hideous evil might want to support the American Anti-Slavery Group. This is an abolitionist organization dedicated to fighting against and eliminating slavery from the face of the earth.
Here's its webpage:
https://www.iabolish.org
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Has Whitey ever done anything right?
and make no mistake if western civilization were ever to fall, slavery would be back instantly.
Actually the westerners would BE the slaves.
Actually if America were to actually be beaten and occupied, the greatest rape, pillage and enslavement in the history of the world would ensue.
There are today.
Such people have been restrained by law and by the traditions of Western Civilization in the past.
If such restraints were released--or even weakened--such people would attempt to achieve such ambitions and might succeed.
Yes, the Brirts brought slavery to the American colonies, they are the the ones who should pay reparations. Open your purse Queen Elizabeth.
This madness can go on forever.
“pulent wealth amassed from slave labour. The renovation cost roughly $22 million”
Slave labor?
Like Amazon warehouse work? H1B replacements crushing wages of citizens?
So rich folls scamming tax deductible bucks for building a museum for rich folks to see what rich folks have
done.
Just wondering if they can see the irony in this whole escapade?
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