[ProgressingAmerica]

“The British Empire outlawed slavery and after doing so acted to exterminate it.”

This is a false statement, in this context. We’re talking about 1776 and prior.

Even Britain’s deeply leftist papers have noted that the Empire was all-in on slavery until well into the 1820’s.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/gladstone-wellington-peel-britain-pro-slavery-british-history-abolition

=========Contrary to our view of history, pro-slavery thinking in the 1820s and 30s was the norm, from politicians to monarchs==========

[ProgressingAmerica]

I forgot to add, 1776 until 1820 is roughly 40 years.

We don’t know our own history and it’s killing us. And it’s about to cost us big bucks for someone else’s guilt.

Our Founders were the good guys!!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Slavery is still the norm in much of the world, including some Muslim countries and China. #BidenCulturalDifferences

[odawg]

“Even Britain’s deeply leftist papers have noted that the Empire was all-in on slavery until well into the 1820’s.”

That is because every nation in world history since the dawn of time was all-in on slavery, especially the great empires. It was considered a normal state of affairs.

[Little Ray]

Since Western slavers just bought the slaves Africans brought to their coastal trading posts, why don’t you go after black Africans for the violence they perpetrated against their fellows?

[Jim Noble]

What does any of this have to do with the lives of your grandparents, your parents, yourselves, your children and your grandchildren?

Nothing is what.

[hanamizu]

“The British Empire outlawed slavery and after doing so acted to exterminate it.”
This is a false statement, in this context. We’re talking about 1776 and prior.

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Yes, but to its credit, the British Empire was the first nation to not only abolish slavery in its empire but then actually used its massive naval power to eliminate it. It was the Royal Navy that captured slave ships and set their human cargos free. Slavery in Britain itself hadn’t been legal for a long time. The tradition was that a man was free as soon as he touched British soil.

The Founding Fathers of our nation don’t get the credit they deserve in trying to eliminate slavery here. Slavery was abolished in the Northwest Territory by the Confederation Congress. Our Constitution stipulated that the overseas slave trade could not be eliminated for 20 years, which it was as soon as the 20 years were up.

[Bull Snipe]

That’s fine. The Brits can pay reparations to all slaves imported prior to 1776. We have to pick up the tab for those imported up to 1808 and all of their offspring. About 4 million in 1860.

[KC Burke]

And..
Early 1700s the Virginia colonial House of Burgesses, which had a variable attitude about slavery, attempted to outlaw the practice but the British government overruled the attempt.

I wish I could cite the source on this claim but I only recall it from a Patrick Henry biography.