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Dark side of the Empire is exposed as New York museum highlights how Britain built wealth on the back of slavery
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 1, 2020 | Chris Dyer

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: left; slavery; uk
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To: Macoozie
Making an ever increasing profit is more important than Americans having a job at a decent wage or a job at all.

This COVID hype is providing a lot of cover for possible legislative shenanigans. Watch what the other hand is doing.

21 posted on 03/01/2020 6:14:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: C19fan

If slavery really did begin here in 1619, America became independent from England in 1776, and slavery was ended in 1865 in the US, then slavery existed here under English rule for 157 years, while it only existed under the American government for 89 years. Sounds to me like the Brits are the ones who owe reparations, not the American government.


22 posted on 03/01/2020 6:42:19 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Hardastarboard

Slavery didn’t exist in all parts of America in some of those 89 years because some states were free states. There was a lot of resistance to allowing slavery in new states as well. I don’t know much about the fugitive slave law (free states obliged to return runaway slaves to the slave state) or how much it was enforced. Having said all that, factory and mill owners in the free northern states certainly exploited the labor of their workers.


23 posted on 03/01/2020 7:34:43 AM PST by Cecily
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To: C19fan

“Dark side of the Empire is exposed as New York museum highlights how Britain built wealth on the back of slavery”

From a distance this looks like reinforcement of the 1619 agenda.

Orchestrated reinforcement.


24 posted on 03/01/2020 7:40:09 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: C19fan

Every society in history had slavery. EVERY one.


25 posted on 03/01/2020 8:37:14 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: C19fan

Every country on the planet has had some sort of slavery and guess what - they were of all races.


26 posted on 03/01/2020 8:55:02 AM PST by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: C19fan

I was a Met supporter. No more.

It should leave art alone, for art’s sake, and not try to be political historians. That job belongs to others.


27 posted on 03/01/2020 9:19:15 AM PST by Wuli
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To: ronnie raygun

The exhibition doesn’t say only the British did slavery. It is specifically about how slavery played a factor in building the wealth of the British empire. It is to their commendation that they later on became anti slavery and I hope that is also highlighted.


28 posted on 03/01/2020 8:14:06 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: himno hero

The industrial revolution was a big part of why the empire got rich, but slavery and also exorbitant taxes in Bengal and captive suppliers/markets also were factors


29 posted on 03/01/2020 8:15:48 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: miss marmelstein

This is not aimed solely at Britain, it is an attempt to deconstruct western civilisation in general. The same liberal goons responsible for this will also be the types who prattle on about the founding fathers being racist and America being built on white supremacy.


30 posted on 03/02/2020 2:32:32 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: C19fan

More museum exhibits are coming soon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_in_the_Soviet_Union

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2018/4/30/socialism-is-slavery

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/12/chinas-slaves-josh-gelernter/

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/business/global/ikea-to-report-on-allegations-of-using-forced-labor-during-cold-war.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/forced-student-labour-china-apple

https://qz.com/1732084/forced-uyghur-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-could-be-making-us-sold-clothing/

https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-modern-day-slavery-2018-7

https://qz.com/africa/1333946/global-slavery-index-africa-has-the-highest-rate-of-modern-day-slavery-in-the-world/


31 posted on 03/02/2020 2:48:18 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Yes, you’re right - and you Brits will be first in line to prattle on about the founding fathers being racist. Toughen up and don’t be so thin-skinned.


32 posted on 03/02/2020 4:19:55 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: Hardastarboard

Yep.


33 posted on 03/02/2020 5:34:32 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Hardastarboard
Technically Us history begins on July.4,1776.
34 posted on 03/02/2020 5:36:38 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: miss marmelstein

The kind of Brits who say the founding fathers were racist are usually the same ones who say the British Empire was racist, they are part of the same anti-western, anti-white continuum of decadent western thought. Frankly, western conservatives should be uniting to support people being proud of their countries in the face of those who want to deconstruct patriotism and the very concept of the sovereign nation state to support a very nefarious globohomo agenda.


35 posted on 03/02/2020 5:51:34 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Except that British conservatives have no love for Americans or America. Read Peter Hitchens, read Melanie Phillips, look at Boris Johnson’s behavior before Trump was elected. There are exceptions, no doubt, but the rest? Fuhgeddidabud it!


36 posted on 03/02/2020 5:55:19 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: miss marmelstein

Peter Hitchens doesn’t think much of Britain either. As far as he is concerned modern Britain is irreedemable and fit to be written off. I gave up reading his writing because he is a miserable and depressing bastard and there is no point in reading the writings of a man who has given up hope and just wants to spread doom and gloom.


37 posted on 03/02/2020 12:32:57 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Yes. I agree.


38 posted on 03/02/2020 1:03:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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