Our Leftists’ narrative is that the USA was responsible for SLAVERY!!1!, ignoring the facts illustrated in this article, ignoring the fact that Muslim slave raids were the scourge of Europe for hundreds of years. This only ended in the 19th Century - with much American help towards that in the late 1700s, in America’s first wars post-Indepedence, the Barbary Wars against Muslim slavers.
That our domestic Left ignores this reality because they are not interested in historical truth, they are interested in using Critical Theory to weaken and destroy American ideals.
You seem to have omitted London’s two emancipation proclamations made during the Revolution- Dunmore’s and Philipsburg.. And Britain abolishing its Atlantic slave trade in 1807, and abolishing slavery in its colonies in 1833.
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Oh, geez, pick your battles wisely.
Also, Brits make great hay out of stopping the slave trade. But they always forget to mention their defacto giant slave nation of India and their enslavement of areas in China.
The term coolie came from the British slave trade in “indentured” workers. It was anything but a free and fair exchange.
A number of nations, including the British, Americans, coastal Europeans and Africans were involved in the Atlantic slave trade. None should have allowed it, but they did. The Middle Passage was terrible. Eventually though, it was ended. Nowadays though, American blacks are the most prosperous group of black people in the world. Which make this whole reparations thing ridiculous. As for Edmund Burke, he defended the American colonists and sought reconciliation, speaking on their behalf in the Parliament.
British making slavery illegal while using whole colony’s populations essentially slave labor was the norm.