“did de brits invent slavery?”
Next to prostitution, 2nd oldest profession.
To answer the question, is that it is common knownledge that the Rothschilds and the bank of England financed the whole mess, (at least in the western civilizations version of this global catastrophe) which continues practically unabated to this day, and in some quarters slaving is a perfectly acceptable occupation and is performed by and across the societal strata.
Common knowledge is often not correct.
The person, Edward Colston, that this article was about lived 1636 - 1721. He was involved with the Royal African Company 1680 - 1692. The RAC held monopoly on the British trade in African slaves.
The founding father of the Rotschild dynasty, Mayer Amsel Rotschild, was born in 1744 (and died in 1812). He started from very poor beginnings, but he gained the patronage of the Crown Prince William of Hesse, and eventually became “Court Factor” in 1769. The initial business was mainly in rare coins. It was not until the Napoleonic Wars that the Rotschild banking industry grew. So, at least a century after the exploits of Edward Colston.
So, did the very wealthy Landgraves of Hesse (Wilhelm and his father Fredrik) deal in slaves? Maybe, but not the slaves we usually think about these days. Fredrik II how made the “family fortune” made his money by “renting” soldiers to Great Britain to fight the Revolutionary War. So, depending on who willing the Hessians were to take part in foreign wars or not, a kind of human trade, but not part of the black slave trade.
The British slave trade was abolished by an act of Parliament in 1807. The Rotschild banking enterprise in Britain started in 1805.
Slavery as such was not abolished in the British empire until 1833. In 1837 a Slave Compensation Act was passed which compensated slave owners in the Colonies. Such liberal luminaries as Gladstone helped to pass this law. The Rotschilds were involved in financing a huge loan taken by the British State pay for the compensation to the slave owners,
This is the background to the canard that the Rotschilds financed the slave trade.