The British Empire outlawed slavery and after doing so acted to exterminate it.
The Muslims in Africa, however, were stubborn about holding on to the practice.
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This is asinine but right in line with the liberal thought process.
Throughout “all” history there have been slaves and there still is.
Who sold the slaves to the people that brought them here is never mentioned. Even Native American’s held other tribes a slaves not to mention every damn place in the middle east and all over Europe but in todays toxic liberal mindset the only ones that matter are the ones owned by white people several generations ago.
Should the progressives get on with their tawdry lives instead of trying to find a cudgel to bludgeon their enemies?
Shouldn’t the African countries whose ancestors sold slaves into slavery pay reparations too?
Not just UK, of course. Numerous slaves were initially kidnapped by their fellow Africans.
Like opposing tribes that captured and sold most of the slaves. Most of which did NOT come to the US. And how about the fact that thousands of non POC were captured and made slaves. Guess that doesn’t count. Good map link:
https://slavevoyages.org/static/images/assessment/intro-maps/09.jpg
Wasn’t aware anyone has ignored it. I was taught about it in history in school in the late 1960s early 1970s. It is a fact, it is history, we should learn from it, but don’t see why dwelling on it is helpful. We don’t dwell on other horrible historical events, why this one? What Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler (all communists or near communists) murder of 10s of millions, and putting millions in camps? In the ranking of the worlds many atrocities, that seems more brutal than black slavery?
The British paid their slavery reparations. They did a bond issue in 1837 and raised the funds to compensating former slave owners for the loss of their property after abolition.
Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million to pay out for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the former owners of the freed slaves. The reparations bond was finally paid off in 2015.
> Where is everybody pointing out that Britain’s Empire was the one who brought the slaves here? <
Unfortunately, you’re missing the point in all this. It’s not that America was bad, or that Britain was bad. It’s that all white people were - and are - bad.
This is not unlike the beginning of Nazi propaganda campaign propaganda campaign against the Jews back in the early 1930s. The Nazis didn’t have to get everyone all riled up. A small minority was enough.
Good folks - both black and white - realize that the same thing is happening here today.
Democrats have enslaved blacks for decades, despised Jews and Catholics (Democrat founded KKK) and yet liberals say the Holocaust was sooo yesterday so drop it already but yet want to reach back over a hundred and fifty years to trash white Americas who gave their lives to end slavery.
No, America invented slavery. /s
How about we quit making slavery the bludgeon and battering ram trying to destroy the West?
Americans should stop fixating on slavery in the past. It was universal.
The secret to success:
1. Learn from the past
2. Live in the present.
3. Prepare for the future.
We have way too many people living in the past. We’ve already learned a great deal from it, e.g. we no longer promote slavery and, in fact, even have made it illegal.
And slavery was a significant part of all cultures for the entire history of mankind, we just recently ended it as “acceptable”. In fact, in the 19th century hundreds of thousands of americans lost their lives and property fighting to end it.
We need to move on.
The Brits did more than everyone else combined to exterminate the slave trade. How about we give ‘em a pass.
Instead why don’t you go after the Moslems, Black and Arab, for their part in the slave trade? They did their own raiding for slaves (unlike the Brits), took far larger numbers of slaves, and continue to practice slavery to THIS VERY DAY.
If there is any slavery going on now, like the sex slave market, focus on that. The past is long gone, the libs need to stop the reparations horsesh*t.
The Portuguese, French, Dutch and Spanish colonists to the New World also imported vast numbers of slaves, mostly from Africa, in a trade that was well supplied by the Muslim traders of both East and West Africa.
So lay the blame on the Muslim people who captured (and are still capturing) slaves in the first place.
So if you are looking for a place to assess guilt, there are your suspects. Excuse them or prosecute them, does anybody in the whole WORLD have the testicular fortitude to proceed?
The. British Empire , especially the Royal Navy did more to end slavery around the world than any other organization in history.
